GAVE CLARION CALL TO PEOPLE FOR JOINING HANDS TO ELIMINATE CURSE OF DRUGS
INDIA NEWS CENTRE,JALANDHAR
Kicking off the first of its kind mass public interaction with the people to make Jalandhar a drug free district, the MLA Mr. Pargat Singh, Deputy Commissioner Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma and Commissioner of Police Mr. Praveen Kumar Sinha today gave a clarion call to people to join hands for wiping out the curse of drugs from district.
During the interaction with people here Boota village locality of ward number 31, they unequivocally said that Punjabis have been blessed with indomitable spirit to excel even in hostile conditions. Citing the examples of terrorism, they said that Punjab overcame even those ‘dark days’ due to the firm commitment and resolve to make the state a peaceful and progressive state. They urged the people to revoke the same spirit to ensure that the problem of drug was completely eliminated from the district.
They said that the basic motive of this mass interaction was to ensure that the younger generations were saved from falling in prey of the menace of drugs. They said that the state government has already snapped the supply lines of the drugs and now the need of hour was to check its demand by detoxification and treatment of the drug addicts. They said that already the wheels of government have been set in motion to ensure that this target was achieved the earliest.
Throwing light on the Drug Abuse Prevention Officer (DAPO) program, they said that this was first of its kind initiative by the Captain Amarinder Singh led state government to check the demand of drugs through mass mobilization. They said that this path breaking initiative was aimed at ensuring maximum public participation in form of DAPO to tackle this menace. They said that DAPOs would