Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 28: Seeking support of every section of the society to take the on-going war against drug addiction to its logical conclusion, chairman of the Team Jammu Zorawar Singh Jamwal today 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.
Addressing a meeting of the prominent citizens of Jammu including Executive Committee members of J&K Excise and Commercial Taxes Employees Welfare Society (Regd) Singh said that drug abuse in J&K is part of Narco-terrorism, imported from the neighbouring Pakistan to spoil youth of the State. He regretted that no concrete policy has been so far formulated to deal with this type of terrorism.
“We have already started a campaign to mobilize Legislators to make stringent laws to deal with this menace”, Zorawar Singh informed members of the Civil Society and hoped that in the coming session of the State Legislature some concrete steps would be initiated in this regard by all political parties.
While sharing details of district- wise records of death cases due to drug over dose and percentage of youth falling prey of drug mafia in Jammu province, he informed the members of the civil society 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.
Jamwal demanded setting up rehabilitation centre on the pattern of Punjab in Jammu region to save lives of those youth who are victim of this menace. He said that there is urgent need to set up such rehabilitation centres in Jammu region.
President of J&K Excise and Commercial Taxes Employees Welfare Society, Vijay Sharma and chief patron of Society, Aslam Qureshi (IAS Retd), in their respective speeches appreciated members/volunteers of Team Jammu for taking such initiative and extended full support.
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