Anti -Drug Awareness Campaign in Jharkhand, programs at 12 thousand places in 17 days

Ranchi, June 26 (IANS). During the awareness campaign hosted by the Jharkhand government from June 10 to June 26, programs were arranged at 12 thousand places, including three thousand schools against drugs and drugs. In this, apart from more than 22 Lakh school children, people have decided to stop the distribution of drugs. A marathon race was held on Thursday on the closing day of the campaign in several cities, including the Capital Ranchi. A portal was inaugurated by the state government, in which useful information related to De -Addiction was shared. The program organized at the end of the campaign in the Shaurya Auditorium in Doranda, Ranchi, said Jharkhand’s Rural Development Minister Deepika Pandey Singh said it was not a new start to end the campaign, but to make the state a drug -free and crime. He said that work on the initiative of Chief Minister Soren is being done to the policy of zero tolerance to drug trafficking and use. Below is strict action on drug dealers, while the youth are constantly made aware. The general secretary Alka Tiwari addressed the program that opium cultivation and drug trafficking engulfed many parts of the state. This time, the state government has widely destroyed poppy cultivation through technology and multi-departmental coordination. Government Director of General Anurag Gupta said that the opium cultivation of this year was destroyed at 27,000 hectares of land. Local villagers also voluntarily participated in this campaign. He said that so far a total of 350 cases have been registered against drugs and that 318 accused have been arrested. Representatives from departments and voluntary organizations who played a special role in the awareness campaign were honored in the program. Earlier Thursday morning, the marathon race held from Ranchi Morhabadi Maidan to Albert Ekka Chowk was involved in the state’s Minister of Development and Tourism Sudivya Kumar Sonu. He took the oath against the drugs to the participants and rewarded the winners of the race. -Ians snc/Ekd shares these story -tags