With the drug menace in Punjab taking enormous form, mainly inflicting the youth, the State Government on Friday constituted a State-level Drug Advisory Committee.
The Committee, thus formed, would suggest ways and means to the State Government to curb the deadly drug menace in the state. Besides, it would advise regarding the sale manufacturing.
The panel will comprise nine members, led by the state Food and Drug Administration commissioner, while the State Drug Controller has been inducted in the committee as member secretary. Assistant drug controllers of Punjab drug testing laboratory, Chandigarh, and representative of drug manufacturing association, Mohali, are also among the members of the committee. The term of the Committee will be of two years, and it would meet at least once in three months.