225 government employees reported to be drug addicts in Arunachal

As many as 225 Arunachal Pradesh government employees have reported to the state government, to be under the influence of some sort of natural or synthetic drugs.
225 government employees reported to be drug addicts in Arunachal

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ITANAGAR: As many as 225 Arunachal Pradesh government employees have reported to the state government, to be under the influence of some sort of natural or synthetic drugs.

This was in response to a recent government notification making it mandatory for all employees to report their addiction to the government.

Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar on Wednesday directed the Health & Family welfare department to come out with a robust action plan to rehabilitate the addicted the government officials in a time-bound manner.

He suggested that the addicts may be categorized into three categories based on their level of addiction, an official communiqué informed here.

"Necessary counselling, treatments, rehabilitation and follow-ups should be as per their level of addiction," he said during a meeting here.

Kumar further added that partner NGOs for every district may be included in follow-up programmes of the addicts after their rehabilitation programme as continuing support to avoid relapse.

"This task is to be accomplished without any delay and in a time bound manner," the chief secretary stressed.

Further, to check the level of drug addiction among government officials, in the first phase the officials of the departments of police, education and health & family welfare would be randomly selected and tested, Kumar said adding, such initiatives should be coordinated by respective Deputy Commissioners, Superintendents of Police and District Medical Officers of the districts which, should be completed by December this year.

The Chief Secretary also directed the anti-narcotics cell to aggressively strike the source of supply of narcotic drugs and catch key drug peddlers.

The meeting was held to discuss issues of drug abuse and de-addiction strategy with Principal Secretary (Home) Rajeev Verma, Secretary Health & Family Welfare P Partibhan, Secretary Tax Excise & Narcotics Y W Ringu, ADGP Ravindra Yadav among others, the communiqué added.

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