Khonsa, Jun 26: On the occasion of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on Friday, the Care Me Home Drug De-addiction Cum Rehabilitation Centre in collaboration with the Khonsa-based NGO 'Care Me Home Welfare Society' distributed food items such as apples, eggs, breads and mineral water in all the quarantine centres of Tirap district.
I/c DIPRO Hakresha Kri, EAC while deliberating on the need to follow the Covid-19 SOPs and other health and hygiene norms as a part of the pandemic awareness efforts under the Arunachal Rising Campaign, appealed the district’s youths to stay away from drugs such as opium/kaani and brown sugar and devote energy in games & sports. He stressed that besides attaining physical well-being, a career in sports will also open up job opportunities under sports quota especially in the state’s departments of forest and police and defence services. Kri further informed that drug peddling is illegal as per the NDPS Act, 1985. The programme was attended by CDPO Khonsa N. Matey, District Library Officer Chaphun Sumnyan and students and members of the NGO.
Apart from this activity, the NGO headed by its Chairperson Sontung Bangsia during the first and second phases of the lockdown also provided ration items to more than 300 daily wage labourers stranded in Khonsa and donated Rs.30,000 to the DMO as a part of the efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic in Tirap. DIPRO

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