Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 11: Making a fervent appeal to the women folk to come forward and join hands in making drug awareness campaign a mass movement here in J&K, especially, in Jammu Province, Chairman of Team Jammu, Zorawar Singh Jamwal today said that drug mafia was making all attempts to trap younger generation in its evil net thereby spoiling the future of nation.
While addressing a gathering of women during a religious function ‘Ramayan Katha in Dogri’, organized by Dharam Prachaar Seva Mandal at Banwaari Temple near Mubarak Mandi, Panjtirthi, Team Jammu chief said that its volunteers would leave no stone unturned to take on its fight against drugs to all nook and corner of Jammu region.
“School going children and college youth need to be involved in a big way for spreading the message at the grass root level. And for that, mothers have to take the lead to make aware their wards about the ill and dead effects of drug abuse,” said Zorawar Singh while making a passionate appeal to women to join hands and take responsibilities in their respected localities to check suspicious activities of drug peddlers.
Zorawar said: “Time has come for the women who being wife, sister and mother to start pro-active campaigns with a spirit of love and compassion that will surely help in preventing self-destruction of those who have fallen prey to drug-addiction. The time is giving alarming bells to come out from homes and reach out to vulnerable segments in a big way.”
Appreciating the office bearers of Dharam Prachar Seva Mandal, including its founder Capt Lalit Sharma, President Randheer Singh Raipuria, Secretary Satpal Raina, Sureshta Raina, Manoj Nischant, Varinder Dogra, Rakesh Sharma and Ramesh Rahi for organizing Ramayan Katha in Dogri language, Chairman Team Jammu said that women have to shoulder the responsibility of inculcating the practice of Sanatan in their siblings since childhood, which would enlighten them about good and bad from their tender age and would help them making a bright future.”
Corporator of Ward number 11, Anita Sharma, in her address, expressed her views on the glaring issue of drug abuse and underscored the duty of parents and especially mothers who have a very considerable role in shaping the future of younger generation.
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