City Desk :
Speakers at a discussion opined that political and social commitment has become an urgent need to combat illegal trafficking of drugs along with its trading, abusing and addiction to protect people and the young generation in particular.
They said 80 percent of the drug addicts belong to the age group of 15 to 30 in the country. So, there is no alternative to adopt measures of anti-smuggling of drugs.
They made this observation yesterday while addressing the discussion styled “Role of Educational Institutions towards creating anti-drugs awareness” at Nanking Darbar Hall in Rajshahi.
District Administration and local office of the Department of Narcotics and Drugs Control organized the discussion.
Commissioner of Rajshahi division Abdul Hannan and Additional Deputy Inspector General of Police of Rajshahi range Mashudur Rahman Bhuiyan addressed the discussion as chief guest and special guests respectively with Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Kazi Ashraf Uddin in the chair.
Principal of Rajshahi College Prof Habibur Rahman, Divisional Director of Islamic Foundation Mahabub Alam, School Inspector of Rajshahi Education Board
Lutfor Rahman and Additional Director of Department of Drugs and Narcotics Control Mujibur Rahman Patwary also spoke.
Chief Guest Abdul Hannan said maladjustment, rising crime, health hazards, murder and suicide are the major consequences of abusing of drugs like heroin, phensidyl, ganja, pathedrine and tranquilizers.
He said the law enforcement agencies alone isn’t capable to combat the social disease but community participation coupled with family and social contribution is very important to this end. Forging social resistance has become indispensable to uproot the crime as it’s being adjudged as a grave concern in the society.
He called for arranging trilateral meeting between Bangladesh, India and Myanmar so that India and Myanmar don’t send drugs to Bangladesh as our country isn’t producer of drugs but being used as consumer as a whole.
Drugs- free society must be built at any cost to protect people particularly the young generation from deadly aggression of the drugs.
Hannan urged the community people to extend their wholehearted cooperation towards law enforcing agencies with authentic information about the drugs traders and traffickers so that they could be brought to book.
Speakers at a discussion opined that political and social commitment has become an urgent need to combat illegal trafficking of drugs along with its trading, abusing and addiction to protect people and the young generation in particular.
They said 80 percent of the drug addicts belong to the age group of 15 to 30 in the country. So, there is no alternative to adopt measures of anti-smuggling of drugs.
They made this observation yesterday while addressing the discussion styled “Role of Educational Institutions towards creating anti-drugs awareness” at Nanking Darbar Hall in Rajshahi.
District Administration and local office of the Department of Narcotics and Drugs Control organized the discussion.
Commissioner of Rajshahi division Abdul Hannan and Additional Deputy Inspector General of Police of Rajshahi range Mashudur Rahman Bhuiyan addressed the discussion as chief guest and special guests respectively with Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Kazi Ashraf Uddin in the chair.
Principal of Rajshahi College Prof Habibur Rahman, Divisional Director of Islamic Foundation Mahabub Alam, School Inspector of Rajshahi Education Board
Lutfor Rahman and Additional Director of Department of Drugs and Narcotics Control Mujibur Rahman Patwary also spoke.
Chief Guest Abdul Hannan said maladjustment, rising crime, health hazards, murder and suicide are the major consequences of abusing of drugs like heroin, phensidyl, ganja, pathedrine and tranquilizers.
He said the law enforcement agencies alone isn’t capable to combat the social disease but community participation coupled with family and social contribution is very important to this end. Forging social resistance has become indispensable to uproot the crime as it’s being adjudged as a grave concern in the society.
He called for arranging trilateral meeting between Bangladesh, India and Myanmar so that India and Myanmar don’t send drugs to Bangladesh as our country isn’t producer of drugs but being used as consumer as a whole.
Drugs- free society must be built at any cost to protect people particularly the young generation from deadly aggression of the drugs.
Hannan urged the community people to extend their wholehearted cooperation towards law enforcing agencies with authentic information about the drugs traders and traffickers so that they could be brought to book.
