Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Apr 2: Continuing its campaign to provide help to the needy and deserving lot of the society, ‘Team Jammu’ today adopted two meritorious students belonging to remotest area of Udhampur district to ensure that these two students continue their studies.
In a function held here today, Team Jammu- an organization of young professionals, social activists, sports persons, doctors, journalists, educationists and intellects, adopted two students namely Kanta Devi and Som Raj, both belong to remotest Dudo-Basantgarh area of the district.
Som Raj, an orphan, had passed 8th standard of examination but due to financial condition, he was not able to continue his further study. As local people brought this matter to the notice of Team Jammu, volunteers decided to bear all expenses related to their education.
Team Jammu, headed by its chairman, Zorawar Singh Jamwal, today visited Udhampur along with other members to formally adopt both the students for pursuing their education. It was announced that Team Jammu will bear all expenses of their education in future.
Later, a seminar was organized by Shivalik College of Education in collaboration with Happy Model Higher Secondary School. The seminar was presided over by chairman of the College, Dr Vikram Gulati. Students of both these educational institutes participated in the seminar in which speakers threw light on drug abuse in Jammu region.
Speaking on the occasion, chairman of Team Jammu, Zorawar Singh Jamwal emphasized on the need of creating awareness among students and young generation to liberate Jammu from the yoke of drug abuse. He said that most parts of the Jammu are gripped with the menace of drug abuse and it is need of the hour to create awareness among people in this regard.
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