DIMAPUR: Nagaland DG (prisons, home guards and civil defence) Rupin Sharma on Monday said 30% of the state’s population takes drugs.
He was speaking at the annual inter-school sports meet of the Dimapur unit of the All Nagaland Private Schools’ Association (ANPSA) at the Don Bosco Higher Secondary School sports complex here.
“The enormity of the problem is quite alarming in the state,” Sharma said.
Noting that a lot of children also take drugs, he asked the students to inform their teachers or police if any of their friends are into drugs.
“Help your friends who take drugs by informing your teachers or police or else you will be encouraging them to continue the addiction,” he urged the students. “You are young and you do not know the implications of such things,” he told them and asked them to stay away from drugs and alcohol.
Sharma suggested that the school management authorities and ANPSA may jointly formulate a standard procedure and put in place a support system to deal with the students who are into drugs.
He also said there is a need to devise some programmes to check the menace of drugs among students. “We should try to rectify them and not punish them,” he added.
He said schools are not only about learning, but are also meant for unlearning and learning afresh some things.
Sharma, who has taken a number of steps to reform prisons and the lives of inmates in the state, said he has distributed 4000-odd books among prison inmates.
He sought these books from students who passed out of schools.
Dr Andrew Ahoto Sema, president of the Dimapur unit of ANPSA, was also present on the occasion.
He was speaking at the annual inter-school sports meet of the Dimapur unit of the All Nagaland Private Schools’ Association (ANPSA) at the Don Bosco Higher Secondary School sports complex here.
“The enormity of the problem is quite alarming in the state,” Sharma said.
Noting that a lot of children also take drugs, he asked the students to inform their teachers or police if any of their friends are into drugs.
“Help your friends who take drugs by informing your teachers or police or else you will be encouraging them to continue the addiction,” he urged the students. “You are young and you do not know the implications of such things,” he told them and asked them to stay away from drugs and alcohol.
Sharma suggested that the school management authorities and ANPSA may jointly formulate a standard procedure and put in place a support system to deal with the students who are into drugs.
He also said there is a need to devise some programmes to check the menace of drugs among students. “We should try to rectify them and not punish them,” he added.
He said schools are not only about learning, but are also meant for unlearning and learning afresh some things.
Sharma, who has taken a number of steps to reform prisons and the lives of inmates in the state, said he has distributed 4000-odd books among prison inmates.
He sought these books from students who passed out of schools.
Dr Andrew Ahoto Sema, president of the Dimapur unit of ANPSA, was also present on the occasion.