NARCOTICS COORDINATION MECHANISM

• NCORD is an institutionalised, four-tier inter-ministerial / inter-agency coordination platform under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to combat drug trafficking, precursor diversion, demand reduction and rehabilitation in India.
• Constituted 22 November 2016, restructured into a 4-tier system on 29 July 2019, and further strengthened on 25 March 2022.
• Examinable as a flagship internal-security / drug-control governance mechanism (GS-III) and as a federal coordination architecture (GS-II).