Teachers’ awareness programme on drugs in Tinsukia district

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TINSUKIA: In order to curb drug menace in educational institutions, a nodal teacher will be appointed in each school in 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 Tinsukia Zilla Parishad, said the potential consumers who are mostly students should be taken care 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 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 to bring teachers under its ambit said that all the 104 secondary and higher secondary schools would launch anti-drug campaign by opening anti-drug clubs in respective schools in a phased manner.

Jayanta Baruah, member Assam State Anti-Drug & Prohibition Council who was instrumental in organizing the workshop involving school teachers said that every school will appoint a nodal teacher where opportunity will exist for screening and early detection besides programme on healthy life style, career counselling and motivation with the support of experts will be taken up periodically. In this respect a project is in the pipeline, said Baruah.

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