The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has identified India as the world's largest producer of illegal performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), with its chief Witold Banka visiting New Delhi to strengthen cooperation with Indian law enforcement, including the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to dismantle supply networks. WADA's investigation head Gunter Younger said the agency is shifting strategy away from athlete testing toward targeting criminal networks, coaches, and doctors supplying PEDs — a top-down approach that has already yielded 250 raids, 88 dismantled labs, and nearly 90 tonnes of PEDs seized globally under its INTERPOL-backed 'Operation Upstream'. The push carries added urgency as India, which has topped the global doping violations list for three consecutive years, prepares to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games and pursues a bid for the 2036 Olympics, though Banka stressed that high positive-test counts alone would not disqualify the country from hosting major sporting events.