Assam: Railway Police Seizes Ganja Worth Lakhs of Rupees

RAHA: As part of a special drive of the Railway Protection Force officials posted at Chaparmukh seized narcotics substances from the Down Kanchanjangha Express and detained one person at the Chaparmukh Railway station on Tuesday night with the consignment.

The Railway Protection Force officials mentioned that the suspect was carrying a heavy bag in a coach of the train and upon opening them, found 8 kilograms 230 grams of dried marijuana was found. The consignment was being transported from Dimapur in Nagaland.

The contraband was worth several lakhs of rupees in the black market, the officials added. The suspected peddler was identified as Jitendra Sahu, a resident of Lanka in Hojai.

In order to curb the drug menace in educational institutions, a nodal teacher will be appointed in each school in the Tinsukia district. As a pilot programme, 30 government teachers who were selected as nodal teachers from across the district attended an awareness–cum-workshop programme organized by Assam State Anti-Drug & Prohibition Council at Tinsukia Zilla Parishad auditorium on Saturday which was addressed by Dr Manjit Singh psychiatrist of Tinsukia Civil Hospital who spoke on Drug Abuse, Addiction & Management.

Inaugurating the programme, Gurnel Singh CEO of Tinsukia Zilla Parishad, said the potential consumers who are mostly students should be taken care of with extreme resiliency, monitoring and counselling and may even take several years to overcome complete addiction. Nazrat Naseen SDO (Sadar) Tinsukia in her brief motivational speech said the teachers should play a proactive role to study the changing psychological behaviour of students, she said adding that a mere awareness programme would not solve the sensitive drug issue, it should be dealt with both preventive and curative aspects of drug addiction. Bitupan Hazarika, Inspector of Schools who initiated bringing teachers under its ambit said that all the 104 secondary and higher secondary schools would launch anti-drug campaigns by opening anti-drug clubs in respective schools in a phased manner.

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