thiruvananthapuram the government will intensify action against drugselling shops in the vicinity of educational institutions including refusal of permission to reopen if found guilty of the offence labour and excise minister t p ramakrishnan saidcurrently such shops reopen even though they were identified as the real perpetrators in many cases to change the scenario the state excise department and the local selfgovernment institutions will together take severe action against such shops and prevent them from reopening he said while chairing a meeting of the executive committee of the states drug and addictionfree mission vimukthi on fridaythe minister said the excise department registered 67713 cases under cigarettes and other tobacco products act cotpa 12425 excise cases and 6573 cases under narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances act ndps in 2019 he said a rs 100crore model deaddiction centre would be opened at kinalur in kozhikode jointly by the excise and health departments in collaboration with the aardram missionthe minister said that units of vimukthi sena would be formed in all the wards in the state by january 30 to keep track of drugrelated activities out of the 19499 wards in the state vimukthi sena units were formed in 11550 of them each unit will have five to 10 members including two women anganwadi workers asha workers and kudumbashree workershe said antidrug clubs will be set up in all schools professional colleges and medical colleges currently such clubs are functioning in 3739 schools and 576 colleges apart from this around 7500 antidrug clubs will be established in all libraries in the state various antidrug campaigns such as evening gatherings home visits and lighting the lamp against drugs will also be organized he saidvimukthi stepped up its campaign by tapping on kudumbashree network down to the grass root level and displaying the drug free kerala message on 500 ksrtc busesvimukthi also prominently displayed its say no to drug message at food stalls of kudumbashree at the ongoing flower show at kanakakunnu apart from floating banners display cards carrying the drugfree message have been placed on the tables set up to serve food and on the tshirts of the suppliers