Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 26: To create awareness among the youth of Jammu province, particularly the young students about the menace of drug addiction and its harmful effects on social life, a mega programme was conducted today at IECS Polytechnic, Purkhoo Camp.
Zorawar Singh Jamwal, Chairman, Team Jammu who is also a member of State Level Monitoring Committee to control drug abuse in Jammu was the chief guest on the occasion. In his lecture, he explained to the students, how this menace is spreading at a very fast pace in northern Indian States particularly in Jammu and Kashmir. He stressed upon the role of parents as well as teachers in protecting the youth from falling a prey to this life consuming fatal habit of drug addiction.
While striking a direct chord with young students including girl students, Zorawar Singh Jamwal said that drug addiction is destroying younger generation of the State and it is need of the hour to evolve a consensus how to deal with this deadly menace.
Jamwal further observed that this menace has consumed lives of hundreds of youth in Jammu region and it has gripped younger generation in its grip but those at the helm of the affairs are still in deep slumber. He reiterated demand of the Team Jammu to break the strong nexus of drug mafia with other influential sections of the society.
Inspector, Rajeshwar Singh Salathia, SHO, Police Station, Domana, also conducted an inter-active session with the students. He elaborated upon the evils of drug abuse and how it is spreading its tentacles in this region. He called upon the students to come forward and inform police wherever they see any suspicious movement be around their educational institutions or around their residential localities.
K G Gupta, Principal IECS Polytechnic, Ajay Singh Jamwal, Dean Administration and Placement, Amit Sharma, Vice-Principal, Gurbachan Singh and H N Bhat, heads of various departments and faculty members were also present.
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