The Assam government today announced setting up of an
enquiry committee, to be headed by the Additional Chief Secretary, to probe
illegal cigarette trade in the state and prevent it.
"Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi has directed that an enquiry committee, to be headed by the
Additional Chief Secretary, be constituted to check and disband illegal trade
in cigarettes reportedly happening in the state," an official release
said.
The committee will
study different aspects of the illegal trade in cigarettes and come out with a
strategy to stop it, it said.
The development
comes a day after the industry chamber FICCI released a report on illegal trade
in seven core sectors resulting in Rs 39,239 crore of revenue loss in
2014. The FICCI estimated that Assam was
losing around Rs 600 crore every year due to illicit trade of tobacco, while
Meghalaya is losing Rs 90 crore annually.
Assam Additional
Director-General of Police (CID) Mukesh Sahay had earlier said that a part of
the funding of insurgent groups in the Northeast was being made by smugglers
and illegal traders in tobacco and alcohol.
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