Tuesday, 18 JULY 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that his government is working on the target to make Uttarakhand drugs-free by the year 2025 and for it efforts at every level are going on as per the work plan. He attended a meeting on drug smuggling and national security chaired by Union Home minister Amit Shah virtually on Monday. Expressing gratitude to the Home minister, Dhami said that the Union government is dealing drug trafficking with an iron hand and its positive results are visible. He said that the Uttarakhand government is also trying to destroy the network of drug trafficking in the State.
Dhami said that on the one hand the State government is increasing public awareness on the issue and on the other it is taking action on the criminals involved in trafficking of drugs. He disclosed that in this year a total of 586 cases have been registered under the NDPS act and 742 arrests have been made. In the year 2022 the State government had set up a three tier anti narcotics task force and it has decided to implement the mental health policy. The government is planning to make the de -addiction centres of the State more effective so that drug abuse is prevented and the drug addicts are rehabilitated and connected with the national mainstream. Special counselling sessions and seminars on de-addiction are being organised in the jails of the State.
The CM said that four integrated rehabilitation centres for addicts are operational in the State and a de-addiction treatment facility is functional with the help of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi. He added that anti drug club committees are set up in the educational institutes in every district. This year 1.25 lakh youngsters took an anti drug e-oath on the occasion of World Anti-Drugs Day. The State government has sent a proposal to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to include a subject on drugs in the syllabus of students of class VI to XII. The governors and CMs of different States attended the meeting.
