Drug abuse threatens India’s demographic dividend: V-P

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Describing substance maltreatment arsenic a “serious societal challenge”, Vice-President (V-P) C.P. Radhakrishnan connected Tuesday said the imaginativeness of a developed and self-reliant India tin beryllium realised lone erstwhile its younker stay healthy, drug-free and purpose-driven.

Speaking astatine a Delhi University lawsuit aimed astatine ensuring a drug-free campus, Mr. Radhakrishnan launched a mobile exertion nether the ‘Nasha Mukt Parisar Abhiyaan’. On his archetypal sojourn to the assemblage arsenic its Chancellor, helium called substance maltreatment not conscionable a idiosyncratic conflict but a nationalist wellness interest and a menace to the country’s demographic dividend.

“Drug maltreatment adversely affects carnal and intelligence health, world performance, household harmony, productivity and nationalist security, including its links with narco-terrorism,” helium said, urging students to go “ambassadors of change”.

When young radical instrumentality the lead, the interaction extends beyond campuses to families and communities, Mr. Radhakrishnan said. He appealed to students to enactment vigilant, enactment peers successful distress, talk up against substance abuse, and pb by example.

Hails Trump’s efforts

The V-P besides praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to combat planetary cause networks, saying drug-free younker were indispensable to safeguarding nationalist sovereignty. “Many of us, including me, bash not hold with President Trump. But connected 1 happening we indispensable agree: helium is the archetypal U.S. President to rise his dependable against the cause mafia of the world,” helium said.

The lawsuit was attended by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood and Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh, who joined elder module and students successful taking a pledge to guarantee a drug-free campus.

Mr. Pradhan said “drug addiction is not cool”, informing that what begins with curiosity oregon experimentation often ends successful dependency, sick wellness and a derailed future. “If immoderate pupil is already struggling, they should cognize that assistance is available, and asking for assistance is not a weakness but wisdom,” helium said.

Mr. Singh informed the assemblage that the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute of Delhi University had launched nationalist helpline services for quitting tobacco.