India, April 8 -- Mizoram chief minister Lalduhoma on Tuesday said he has urged the Union home ministry to help raise a Mizo Territorial Army to fight drug trafficking along the India-Myanmar border.

In a statement issued after the chief minister's meeting with a visiting team of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials led by director general Anurag Garg in Aizawl, the chief minister expressed concern over the growing volume of narcotics being smuggled through Mizoram.

"We need more manpower and better policing infrastructure along the international border," Lalduhoma said, according to the statement. "I have urged the Ministry of Home Affairs to help us raise a Mizo Territorial Army which will help us fend off the narcotics challenge....