The state government in its budget last year announced to provide alternative livelihood to villagers who had to take up poppy cultivation for economic sustenance as well as for use in traditional rituals.
Considered as an endemic district in terms of poppy cultivation and use of opium, a total of 104 people have come forward till date to voluntarily join the 'Mission Against Opium launched in the district last month, they said.
The voluntary drive has indicated a positive turn by people who were seen to have been using opium traditionally for various rituals and medicinal purpose.
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