A wider programme to eliminate narcotics will be started from the Colombo district in line with the megapolis development plan. Director of the President Task Force against narcotics. Dr. Samantha Kithalawaarachchi says drug dealers and distributors will be taken into book . A special squad to raid them will also be established. 

Drug addicts in the country will be rehabilitated. A discussion in this connection will be held at the Presidential Secretariat this morning under the patronage of Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka.