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28,142 anti-narcotic committees formed at educational institutes
JATIYA SANGSAD BHABAN, April 30, 2019 (BSS) – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today told the parliament that the government has formed anti-narcotic committee in 28,142 educational institutions so far to spearhead the nationwide awareness campaign about the adverse impact of drug abuse.
“We have constituted 28,142 anti-drug committees till December last year at schools, colleges and universities to raise awareness about the danger of drug abuse among students,” he said while replying to a query from the treasury bench lawmaker Nizam Uddin Hazari from Feni-2 constituency.
As many as 1446 anti-drug meetings were held at secondary level while 340 others at higher secondary level, 128 at higher educational institutions, 60 meetings at prisons, and 1249 meetings and seminars at other place, from July 2018 to December 2018 as part of the nationwide anti-drug campaign, he informed.
They have a plan to form identical committees at every educational institution and bring them under a network to spearhead a concerted anti-drug campaign, he added.
The government took the move in 2009 with first forming 5,779 committees when the students were getting increasingly inclined towards taking drugs and similar narcotic substances.
Head of each educational institution were made the chief of such five-member committees while physical or religious teacher were made member secretary of the committee.
Three other members of the committees are: a teachers’ representative, a guardian, and a student.
These committees usually hold their meetings once in the month’s end to discuss the darker sides of the abuse of drugs to keep them away from the menace.
Besides, each committee in collaboration with the respective district administration hold a broad-based discussion on the worst side of drugs and narcotics side by side with distributing anti-drug posters, leaflets, souvenirs, bulletins, brochures and booklets among the students.
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