POLICE ORGANISED GRAND ANTI-DRUG AWARENESS PROGRAMME AT BORDER VILLAGE MAWA

 POLICE ORGANISED GRAND ANTI-DRUG AWARENESS PROGRAMME AT BORDER VILLAGE MAWA

Police To Organize More Such Awareness Programmes, Cultural Events & Sports Activities In Border villages  : SSP Samba Benam Tosh*

Samba, May 10: Police today organised grand anti-drug awareness programme under CAP at Shaheed Rfn Varun Katal Memorial Govt. High School Mawa situated in the border area of Samba sector where hundreds of students of Govt. and private schools, parents, teachers, prominent citizens and police officers witnessed the speech delivering competition. 

  SSP Samba Benam Tosh, Addl. SP Samba Surinder Choudhary, DySP DAR Samba Ajay Anand, SHO Police Station Ghagwal Bharat Bhushan, Chouki Officer Rajpura Sudhir Singh and PRIs presented certificates and cash rewards of rupees 10000.00, 7000.00 and 4000.00 to the first, second and third best student speakers respectively, whereas five other student speakers were also felicitated with certificates & cash rewards of rupees 2000.00 each. 

Hundreds of students of Lord Shiva Higher Secondary School Mawa, Shaheed Rfn Varun Katal Memorial Govt. High School Mawa, New Modern High School Mawa and other nearby schools participated in today’s anti-drug awareness programme. BDC Chairman Rajpura Radha Krishan, DDC member Rajpura Asha Rani and Headmistress Govt. High School Mawa Shoba Kumari thanked the police for organizing grand anti-drug awareness programmes at Mawa to generate awareness among students and public against drug abuse. Additional SP Samba also spoke on the occasion and asked youth to stay away from narcotic substances.  

On the occasion, Senior Superintendent of Police Samba Benam Tosh said that Police is organizing symposiums, seminars and debates at different schools and colleges with the objective of creating anti-narcotic awareness among students, youth, parents, guardians, relatives and making it a mass movement against drugs especially heroin called "chitta". SSP Samba further said that nobody would be allowed in Samba district to flourish with illicit drug smuggling, supplying and peddling and Police has almost controlled the drug menace by arresting top suppliers and booking others. Benam Tosh informed that Police would organize more such awareness programmes, cultural events & sports activities in border villages of Samba district in near future.