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| DSWD organizes awareness campaign | | |  Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Sept 24 : District Social Welfare Department in collaboration with Integrated Child Protection Services (ICPS) today organised an awareness programme regarding Nasha Mukt Bharat at Alfalah Manzil Bandrina Kishtwar.
District Social Welfare Officer who is also a District Child Protection Officer- ICPS Kishtwar, Tariq Parvez Qazi (KAS) on the occasion said that the need of the hour is to have a collective approach to get rid of the drug menace.
“In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Directorate of Social Welfare launched ‘Nasha-Mukt Bharat’- Drug free India campaign of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India today with an aim to curb the menace of Drug addiction in the society”, he informed.
He informed that unfortunately in India 272 districts have been identified as drugs prone in which our Kishtwar is one of them besides 7 districts of Jammu and Kashmir Union territory are also in it, he said and added that we should eradicate it from its root, he insisted.
During the programme the inmates of Alfalah Manzil , Ashiana Boys Hostel (Orphanage) NGO run Child Care Institutions participated and presented speeches and skits on the menace of drug abuse and said that drugs and other intoxicants pose a serious problem in the district in particular and nation in general with dangerous consequences and has affected families and the society.
Protection Officer (NIC), DCPU ICPS Kishtwar, Touseef Iqbal Butt, Legal Cum Probationary Officer, Basharat Nazir, Social Workers including Meenakshi Sharma, Saima Kousar and Accountant Amit Gupta were present on the occasion.
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