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The Student Police Cadet (SPC) programme should beryllium extended to each government, aided, and backstage schools successful the State to guarantee that students bash not autumn prey to cause and different substance addiction, the Assembly Committee connected Welfare of Women, Transgenders, Children, and Differently Abled has recommended.
The proposal to the General Education and Home departments is among the galore successful a study connected substance maltreatment among children and its solutions by the Assembly committee, headed by U. Prathibha, MLA.
The committee recommends that a ‘college constabulary cadet’ strategy beryllium rolled retired successful government, aided, and backstage colleges connected the exemplary of the SPC to enactment adolescents arsenic they modulation from schoolhouse beingness to higher education.
It calls for expediting steps to guarantee the services of counsellors successful each government, aided, and backstage schools successful the State and different facilities specified arsenic hostels wherever children are accommodated truthful that those with intelligence wellness problems specified arsenic borderline property upset oregon whose parents are separated oregon divorced oregon person a substance maltreatment occupation tin beryllium identified aboriginal and their intelligence wellness ensured.
It has mooted completion of grooming for prime schoolhouse teachers to equip them to go superior counsellors and ensuring that determination is astatine slightest 1 trained teacher successful each school.
NDPS Act
The committee has observed the limitations of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act successful ensuring stringent punishment for those accused of selling specified substances to children, encouraging them to usage it, selling specified substances successful the vicinity of acquisition facilities, oregon advertizing liquor. It called for expediting steps to instrumentality recommendations submitted to the Union authorities connected amending laws to guarantee punishment for the accused adjacent successful ‘small quantity’ cases.
It urged departments acrophobic to guarantee funds to instrumentality the ‘Our Responsibility to Children’ successful each schoolhouse successful the State to make consciousness among students of the ills of substance maltreatment and instrumentality preventive steps against the backdrop of an summation successful cause cases successful the State.
The committee underscored the request to rise consciousness among parents and teachers connected preventing substance maltreatment and however to grip specified cases, including identifying children who travel from families facing assorted challenges and are much susceptible to cause abuse. It besides mooted implementing parenting clinics of the Women and Child Development section astatine the panchayat level itself.
