Fifty CCTVs have been installed at the state-run Opium and Alkaloid Works here - the biggest opium processing factory of Asia - to safeguard it against drug mafias.
The factory is situated close to the border of MP and Rajasthan and remains a target of opium and drug mafias. Incidents like loots and thefts of opium are common here.
The CISF personnel are keeping an hawk eye on the activities in the factory where 800 to 1,000 tonnes opium is stocked annually, and processed into substances used in life-saving drugs, officials said.
"The produce of 25,000 Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan opium growers have been stocked for grading in the establishment, which is restricted area," factory general manager Harinaryan Meena told PTI today.
He said recently 50 CCTV cameras have been installed and 100 CISF jawans and officers are keeping a tight vigil in the factory.
Meena said that 32 cameras have been installed at the laboratory where the opium is checked and by-products from it are made in accordance with the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
He said that opium gradation procedure among other things is being video recorded in the factory.
According to him, opium of 13,000 farmers have been graded in the factory.
