In February 1999, India's CBN destroys a record 248 hectares of opium poppy fields in the districts of Changlang, Khonsa, Lohit and Yingkiong in Arunachal Pradesh.
In October 1999, the CBN initiates a survey of addicts and illicit cultivation areas in the Lohit district with the intention of devising a practical alternative development plan.
(Source: Central Bureau of Narcotics, Gwalior)