Community participation vital to ensure drug free society

Spontaneous participation of the community has become indispensable to free society from drug addiction along with its illicit trafficking and trading to protect the young generation from the grim grasp of drugs.

The present government, under the dynamic and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is determined to free the country from drug abuse.

So, all quarters including the leaders of influence, supplement the government effort collectively.

Social watchdogs and development activists came up with the observation while addressing the network meeting of Civil Society Organisation (CSO) at Hotel Warisan in Rajshahi city on Thursday afternoon.

The Light House Consortium hosted the meeting under the ‘Drug Abuse Resistance and Understanding (DARAU)’ project. Counterpart International has been implementing the project in Rajshahi and Natore districts under the ‘Promoting Advocacy and Rights (PAR)’ programme with the financial support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

Former Chairman of Rajshahi Education Board Professor Dipakendra Nath Das, former Additional Registrar of Rajshahi University (RU) Safiuddin Ahmed and Editor of Daily Sonar Desh Akbarul Hassan Millat addressed the meeting as focal persons.

DARAU Project Manager Subrata Kumar Paul gave an overview of the project, demonstrating its aims, objectives and implementation strategy in his concept paper presentation.