Educationists at a discussion on Monday stressed upon building a social resistance against drug abuse and its illicit trafficking aiming to protect people, particularly the young generation, from drug addiction.
They said around 80 percent of the drug addicts are of the age group of 15 to 30 in the country and that is why there is no alternative to taking effective steps to check drugs abuse and its illicit trade. Rajshahi University (RU) authorities organised the discussion on the campus aiming to create awareness among the students, teachers and employees about the deadly impacts of drug abuse.
RU Vice-Chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan, its Pro-Vice-Chancellors Prof Ananda Kumar Shaha and Prof Chowdhury Jakaria, Proctor Lutfor Rahman and Registrar Prof Abdul Bari, among others, spoke at the meeting. Prof Sobhan said the rising crime, health hazards, murder and suicide are the major consequences of abuse of drugs like heroin, phensidyle, ganja, pathedine and tranquilisers.
He said the law enforcing agencies alone are not able to combat the social menace, but the community participation coupled with family and social contribution is an urgent to this end.
Prof Sobhan stressed arranging trilateral meeting between Bangladesh, India and Myanmar so that drugs from India and Myanmar could not enter Bangladesh. He said a drugs-free society as well as university campus must be built at any cost to protect people, particularly the young generation, from deadly aggression of the drugs.
The RU VC urged the community people to extend their wholehearted cooperation towards the law enforcing agencies with authentic information about the drugs traders and traffickers so that they could be brought to justice.
Earlier, a procession was brought from the premise of university senate building and ended at the same venue after parading different roads of the campus.
