Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has urged the governments at Centre and state-level to initiate stringent legal action against the drug mafia.

Addressing press persons in Mangaluru on Friday, Shrihari Borikar, National General Secretary of ABVP, said that the parishad has launched a campaign against drugs, alcohol and tobacco addiction among the student community.

The problem of these addictions has reached to uncontrollable limits in most of the north-eastern states near the international border, and also several western and northern states of the country.

Narcotic drugs take away the potential of working class making them a national burden to the otherwise young country like India. The money laundered in drug rackets is used for anti-national activities such as terrorism, Borikar said.

In view of this, ABVP has initiated an awareness campaign to create addiction-free civic society involving the youths of the country.

The awareness programme was initiated on the birth anniversary date of Swami Vivekananda on January 12, and will continue up to January 30 (smriti divas of Mahatma Gandhi).

Awareness campaign and programmes will be conducted in slums and hostels on January 17 and 18, and oath-taking ceremonies will be conducted in schools, colleges and public places on January 23.

Borikar said that school and college students at all taluk and district headquarters will form human chain at important public places on January 30.

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