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Nine villages person been declared arsenic tobacco-free successful Mandya district.
Deputy Commissioner of Mandya Kumar disclosed this accusation portion presiding implicit the District Tobacco Control Cell gathering successful Mandya connected Thursday.
The 9 villages are Chikkarsikere and Kadalipura successful Maddur taluk, Chagashettahalli and Melukote successful Pandavapura taluk, Naguvinahalli and Karekura successful Srirangapatna and Gollarahalli, T. Channapura and Tigalarapalya villages successful Nagamangala taluk of Mandya district.
According to Mandya territory Tobacco Control Cell Officer Thimmaraju, a colony is declared tobacco-free erstwhile it follows the guidelines of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) viz. prohibition connected smoking successful nationalist places, shops wrong 100 metres of an acquisition instauration bash not merchantability cigarettes, beedis oregon different baccy products and each shops successful the colony athletics boards against smoking and depletion of tobacco.
Pointing retired that much than 10,000 schoolhouse and assemblage students successful the territory had participated successful a missive run connected the harmful effects of narcotic drugs, Dr. Kumar said children tin make consciousness against specified practices by penning specified letters to their parents. Apart from changing the behaviour of their parents, the children excessively volition make consciousness that they should not fume oregon devour narcotic substances.
The Deputy Commissioner instructed the officials to hole jingles connected the harmful effects of tobacco, intoxicant and narcotic cause depletion and dispersed the connection via an consciousness run done sanitation vehicles successful the limits of City Municipal Councils (CMCs) and Gram Panchayats.
He called upon the officials to delegate work to teachers to show drug-related activities successful the schoolhouse areas. The teachers should support an oculus connected the shops adjacent schools arsenic determination whitethorn beryllium a anticipation of the shops selling baccy and narcotic substances. The teachers should place specified shops and pass the authorities concerned.
In galore instances, radical cultivate ganja successful sugarcane fields and successful areas nether the jurisdiction of the Forest Department and merchantability the aforesaid to the people. Such persons should beryllium identified and due ineligible enactment should beryllium taken against them.
Dr. Kumar instructed the officials to cancel the store owners’ commercialized licence if baccy products are sold illegally successful the CMC limits.
He besides directed the officials to paste posters connected the harmful effects of baccy usage astatine autobus stands, railway stations, parks and different crowded places, and to make consciousness among engineering, aesculapian and grade assemblage students astir the effects of cause consumption.
He besides asked the officials to surface the posters of caller films being released successful the territory and inquire the owners of theatres to regenerate immoderate movie poster that encourages cause consumption. Putting up posters promoting cause usage successful nationalist places is illegal, helium warned.
Between April 2025 and December 2025, a full of 601 cases had been registered for amerciable sale/consumption of narcotic substances successful nationalist places successful Mandya territory and a punishment of ₹64,430 has been collected.
The gathering was besides attended by District Health and Family Welfare Officer K. Mohan, Excise Deputy Commissioner R. Nagashayan, Deputy Director of the Department of Public Education Lokesh, District Survey Officer Kumar, Family Welfare Officer Bettaswamy, District AIDS Control Officer M.N. Ashalatha, Reproductive and Child Health Officer K.P. Ashwath, Leprosy Eradication Officer Somashekar, and others.
