Sustained efforts taken by the Tirunelveli District Police in rural areas have created 34 drug-free villages in the district where banned tobacco products and drugs have been flushed out. As the police shared the phone numbers for alerting them to sale or stocking of banned tobacco products or drugs, they started receiving sufficient information. “With this, the flow of information about banned tobacco products and drugs from our sources started, and we acted upon the information immediately. We have flushed out banned tobacco products and drugs from 34 villages of Tirunelveli district as on August 11. Similar drive is going on in Tenkasi, Thoothukudi and Kanniyakumari districts...