TSANB Director Sandeep Shandilya gets one more year extension

The extension will come into force with effect from June 1, 2024 after his retirement on attaining age of superannuation on May 31, 2024. He will get paid remuneration, which was last drawn while in service after deducting pension.

A government vehicle would be provided to him for official purposes apart from providing travel and dearness allowances on par with All India Service (AIS) officers and in-service officers of equivalent rank.

Shandilya is eligible for leave applicable for AIS officers. He was the first officer to take full charge of the post of TSANB Director after it was established by the government to control drug trafficking in Telangana in December 2023.

The Bureau’s responsibility is to combat drug trafficking comprehensively, including cultivation, production, transportation, smuggling, sale, purchase, possession, or consumption of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in the State.

It serves as a ‘Secretariat’ for the State Anti-Narcotics Task Force so as to exercise the powers of a police station to register, investigate and prosecute cases related to drug and psychotropic substances. With the instructions of Director-General of Police, Telangana, the TSANB can also take up investigations of narcotics and medical drug cases from other units in the State.

TSANB’s three pillars, ‘Courage-Commitment-Combat’ is the motto to control drug offenders. Thus, these three pillars have become a mandate of TSANB since its inception to generate grass-root level intelligence to detect and disrupt organized drug trafficking groups.

TSANB Director Sandeep Shandilya gets one more year extensionAs Telangana’s nodal point, it works with all Police Commissionerate and district head quarters and central bureaus - NCB, CNB, IB, Customs, etc., to overcome the challenges to tackle drug menace with the guidelines of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), NCB, and Telangana government.