Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 11: Former Minister and senior BJP leader Choudhary Sukhnandan Kumar today appealed to the J&K administration to tighten noose around drugs peddlers operating in Jammu and stressed that the Government as well as parents should work together to curb this menace.
During a meeting of BJP workers in Jammu North Constituency, the senior BJP leader said that the society would be ruined over the next few years if growing abuse of banned drugs like Heroin, brown sugar etc smuggled from Pakistan, are not checked.
“No doubt, the J&K Government under the guidance of Home Minister Amit Shah and LG Manoj Sinha is making earnest efforts to protect and aware youth especially students from falling prey to Pakistan sponsored terror modules operating in some parts of J&K, but the role of parents and social workers is equally important to expose the drug peddlers, operating all over,” he stressed.
Sukhnandan appealed to the parents also to keep a strong check on their children so that we can timely save our families . “If youth is fit, the Nation is fit,” he added.
The former Minister said that Police department must make necessary changes in its working so that not a single drug peddler can go scot-free. “I am going to start a village to village and town to town and city to city drive to aware the youth and their parents to stay away from drugs like Chita, brown sugar, which are being sold in many areas of Jammu,’ he announced.
Sukhnandan also appealed to LG Manoj Sinha to prepare an age-appropriate curriculum to educate children about the ill effects of drug abuse and integrate the same into the curriculum of all Government schools and colleges in J&K. Besides, he added, Yoga, sports, and physical activities be made a mandatory part of the curriculum in all Government schools.
Sukhnandan also stressed on the periodic visits of Medical teams for conducting drug awareness campaigns in schools and colleges. It will robust the mental and physical health of children that would help in weaning them away from drugs being sold in open in rural and city areas by drug peddlers, he added.
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