Unified Portal of Central Bureau of Narcotics Launched
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What is discussed under Unified Portal of Central Bureau of Narcotics Launched?
- Overview
- What are the benefits?
- About Central Bureau of Narcotics
Why in News ?
The Unified Portal of the Central Bureau of Narcotics was launched by the Revenue Secretary.
Key Facts
- The Central Bureau of Narcotics has taken measures to strengthen the vision of Digital India.
- The unified portal of Central Bureau of Narcotics will instill the efficiency, transparency and accountability
- Twin objective is
- To cater the need of pharma and chemical industry for synergistic growth of the drugs & pharma sector and boosting economy for Aatma Nirbhar Bharat
- Ensure availability of the “essential narcotic drugs” and medicines to the patients & their attendant families.
- Controlled substances in the country with transparent and better compliance.
- This portal is calibrated to have database integration & ingestion with other government services including Bharat Kosh, GST, PAN- NSDL validation, e-Sanchit, and UIDAI
- This will be a single point services for obtaining the licenses from CBN.
What are the benefits?
- The exporter, importer, and manufacturer of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances, and Controlled Substances are expected to be benefitted
- This will supports and harbours user-friendly, secure transactions, cloud-based storage, simplified process for applicants.
- This fecilitate to obtain various licenses such as Import Certificates, Export Authorizations, No Objection Certificate for various NDPS and controlled substances, manufacturing licenses, Quota Allocation of Narcotic Drugs in a smooth, hassle-free and transparent operations.
- All the operations are envisaged to be faceless & contactless.
- The applicants may file applications from anywhere & anytime 24*7 basis eliminating the need of physical interaction.
- Also can raise queries with the department which shall be responded through portal.
- This will leverage drastic reduction in ‘processing-time’ and conserving the resources of the trade for other fruitful business activities.
Central Bureau of Narcotics
- Central government organization dealing with the international trade of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances, and Precursor Chemicals.
- It is under the ambit of various United Nations Conventions and the provisions of NDPS Act, 1985.
- These substances bear dual potential as strong medicinal, scientific, and industrial use as well as a diversion for illicit use creating the substances for abuse.
- Therefore, there is a need for striking a fine balance between the availability of these substances to the people and maintaining compliance with the law in this regard.
- These challenges envisioned the Bureau to conceptualize the use of a Digital platform as an effective tool to synergize and sustain balance between facilitation and compliance management.
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