Shimla, Feb. 15 -- In wake of growing complaints of drug menace among paragliders, Kullu district administration to start drug testing for which testing kits have been procured.

This decision was taken during the meeting of technical committee related to paragliding held under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner, Kullu, Torul S Raveesh, on Friday.

The meeting assumes significance in wake of 5 deaths (in both solo and tandem flights) were reported in the last five years in Kullu district and the probe into the incidents have attributed the deaths to "human error".

Paragliding in India had taken off in Himachal's Bir Billing in the early 1990s. It was in 1996 that tandem paragliding was first introduced by Roshan Thakur in the Solang...