Palamu district legal services authority has so far set up 38 legal literacy clubs.

The latest to join this fleet of the legal literacy clubs is a prestigious school informed the secretary DLSA Arpit Shrivastva. 

Shrivastava said there are legal literacy clubs in the Borstal school and observation homes etc. 

The legal literacy clubs are to prepare an army of students to rise against drug and its menace, said Arpit Shrivastva.

He said "Fighting drug menace is a big task. It's a challenge. Our younger ones can put a stop to it but before that they must know what the ill effects of the drugs are and how better they can contain it."

Awareness about the devastating effects of the drug is the first round of assault on it and its menace reiterated the secretary DLSA here. 

He said the principal district and sessions judge Niraj Kumar Srivastav and his team is toying with the idea of making an outreach programme to some such locations here where illicit crops like marijuana and poppy are cultivated surreptitiously in Palamu. 

Panki and Manatu blocks have infamy for the illicit crops here in Palamu. 

He said "We are serious about this outreach. It is to create awareness about the fall out of growing such crops which devastate families. Men go to jail and  languish there for years. All this can be avoided by a very simple thing. Just don't grow illicit crops. It's a serious offence and brings in stringent punishments." 

Shrivastava said we have 22 para legal volunteers who too are spreading a message among the masses against the drug and its menace.