Students encouraged to pursue sports, creative activities and to stay away from drug menace

The Prohibition and Excise Department connected Tuesday (June 16) encouraged the students to research sports and originative activities alongside world pursuits to realise the State Government’s imaginativeness of ‘Drug-Free Tamil Nadu’, during an consciousness programme connected curbing the cause menace conducted astatine Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science successful Coimbatore city.

The programme was inaugurated successful the beingness of Coimbatore City Police Commissioner N. Kannan, District Collector Pavankumar G. Giriyappanavar, and Managing Trustee of SNR and Sons Charitable Trust R. Sundar. Students from 25 schools took portion successful essay-writing, poetry, drafting and singing contests to rise consciousness astir the harmful effects of cause abuse.

Mr. Kannan said that the Police Department was taking stringent measures to combat cause abuse. Staying distant from drugs would pave mode for occurrence successful life, helium said, and called upon the nationalist to study drug-related activities adjacent their homes and schools to the Police Department.

College Principal B.L. Shivakumar said that slogans against cause maltreatment volition beryllium displayed astatine vantage locations connected the campus. The students were administered pledge against cause addiction.