DIMAPUR: Nagaland DG (prison, house guard and civil defense) Rupin Sharma On Monday, 30% of the state’s population used drugs.
He was speaking at the annual interscholastic athletic meeting of the Dimapur unit of the Association of Private Schools of All Nagaland (ANPSA) at the Don Bosco Senior High School sports complex here.
“The magnitude of the problem is quite alarming in the state,” Sharma speak.
Realizing that many of the children were also using drugs, he asked the students to notify the teacher or the police if any of their friends were using drugs.
“Help your friends who are using drugs by notifying your teacher or the police, or you will encourage them to continue their addiction,” he encouraged the students. “You’re young and you don’t know the consequences of that,” he told them, asking them to stay away from drugs and alcohol.
Sharma suggested that school authorities and ANPSA could work together to develop a standard procedure and put in place a support system for dealing with students who are addicted to drugs.
He also said that some programs need to be established to check the threat of drugs among students. “We should try to correct them and not punish them,” he added.
School is not just for learning, he said, but it’s also meant to expand and learn a few things.
Sharma, who has taken several steps to reform prisons and the lives of inmates in the state, said he has distributed 4,000 odd books to inmates.
He sought these books from students who had passed the school.
Doctor Andrew Ahoto SemaThe president of ANPSA’s Dimapur unit, was also present on the occasion.
He was speaking at the annual interscholastic athletic meeting of the Dimapur unit of the Association of Private Schools of All Nagaland (ANPSA) at the Don Bosco Senior High School sports complex here.
“The magnitude of the problem is quite alarming in the state,” Sharma speak.
Realizing that many of the children were also using drugs, he asked the students to notify the teacher or the police if any of their friends were using drugs.
“Help your friends who are using drugs by notifying your teacher or the police, or you will encourage them to continue their addiction,” he encouraged the students. “You’re young and you don’t know the consequences of that,” he told them, asking them to stay away from drugs and alcohol.
Sharma suggested that school authorities and ANPSA could work together to develop a standard procedure and put in place a support system for dealing with students who are addicted to drugs.
He also said that some programs need to be established to check the threat of drugs among students. “We should try to correct them and not punish them,” he added.
School is not just for learning, he said, but it’s also meant to expand and learn a few things.
Sharma, who has taken several steps to reform prisons and the lives of inmates in the state, said he has distributed 4,000 odd books to inmates.
He sought these books from students who had passed the school.
Doctor Andrew Ahoto SemaThe president of ANPSA’s Dimapur unit, was also present on the occasion.
