The Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal asked the students of Kendriya Vidyalaya (Salawala) to keep away from drug-addiction and go for tree plantation while addressing a youth programme organised at the school on Tuesday. The programme was organised as part of the school’s initiative to make the students aware of the danger of the drug menace that is now deepening its tentacles among the youth in the city.
The Speaker asked the students to dissuade their friends also from the addiction to narcotic substances if any of them is found to be addicted. Continuing with his tirade against the growing menace of substance addiction among the students, state Congress general secretary Anand Singh Rawat, who is also CM Harish Rawat’s son, asked the students to take the fight to their respective homes. “They must make their near ones aware of the dangers of addiction if they happen to be prey to it,” he said.
A short animated documentary on Chipko Movement was shown to the students so as to make them aware of the importance of the tress and of the place trees hold in the cultural tapestry of the state. later, each student was given a sapling and instructed to plant it at his home.