Tripura rolls out consciousness marketing campaign on drug abuse, highway security for school college students | North East India Information

The meals and transport departments on Saturday introduced quiz competitions on three essential subjects: highway security, shopper safety, and drug abuse. These competitions will contain college students from schools and universities throughout the state.

“Yearly, highway security programmes are organised. However in contrast to different years, we have now determined to organise it in a special model this time. We now have determined to unfold it to all the universities and universities this yr. We will additionally goal the college college students in future,” Transport, Tourism, Meals and Civil Provides Minister Sushanta Chowdhury mentioned.

Whereas addressing the media on the Civil Secretariat, Chowdhury introduced that the programme will probably be inaugurated in Udaipur, Gomati district, on January 11. School and college college students from Sepahijala, Gomati, and South districts will take part in a quiz contest.

The quiz contest is scheduled to happen in two places. The primary occasion will probably be held in Kumarghat, Unakoti district, on January 18, that includes college students from schools within the North, Unakoti, and Dhalai districts. The second occasion will happen in Agartala on January 27, the place college students from schools within the West and Khowai districts will take part.

School college students should register for the quiz contest in Udaipur by January 10. For Kumarghat and Agartala, college students from these districts have to register by January 14 and 25, respectively.

“We are going to present syllabi for 3 subjects: shopper safety, highway security, and drug abuse. The competitors will probably be primarily based on these syllabi,” mentioned the minister, including that they’d organise rallies with school college students to lift consciousness of those three points.

Winners from these three quiz contests will take part in a central quiz competitors scheduled to be held in Agartala on February 8. The minister talked about {that a} “famend motivational speaker” may also attend the occasion. The federal government will present laptops, smartphones, cell phones, tablets, and good TVs as prizes to winners with the intention to increase consciousness on these points.

“Our division equipped superior interceptor automobiles to the site visitors division in eight districts to boost highway security. Over the previous yr, we noticed a 13 per cent discount in fatalities following the implementation of this new trendy system. Consequently, we have now determined that the Meals and Transport departments will collectively organise consciousness packages all through the state in revolutionary methods,” Chowdhury mentioned.

When requested concerning the determination to incorporate these subjects within the college syllabus, Chowdhury mentioned, “We now have acquired proposals concerning whether or not this may be completed. I’ve famous this and can focus on it with the Chief Minister quickly. Whereas we can not make modifications for NCERT, we are going to discover the potential of implementing them in SCERT.”

The minister emphasised that merely organising a one-day consciousness program on highway security, drug abuse, and shopper safety is not going to result in any significant outcomes except college students are totally knowledgeable. “If we don’t increase consciousness amongst motorcycle customers, the constructive outcomes of our packages is not going to materialise,” he mentioned.

In the course of the 72nd NEC plenary assembly at Pragati Bhawan in Agartala, Residence Minister Amit Shah emphasised the Central authorities’s ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat’ (drug-free India) initiative. He highlighted the significance of particular participation from the Northeast area on this motion to eradicate narcotics. Shah famous that narcotics not solely hurt future generations but in addition have far-reaching penalties.