Hyderabad:
With the nefarious activities of a ‘drug mafia’
coming out in the open in the twin cities, various authorities,
especially the law-enforcing agencies and the managements of private
educational institutions, are racking their brains over how to put a
permanent end to the rancorous evil. They seem to have made up their
minds to take all measures on top priority to curb the menace before
it goes out of hand.
Director General of
Police (DGP) Anurag Sharma here on Friday convened a meeting of all
the Police Commissioners and other senior officials, including the
Excise and Intelligence wings, to take stock of the situation in the
wake of serious concerns being expressed by the parents of students
as the drug mafia was reportedly targeting educational institutions
for prospective ‘clientele’.
Addressing them, the
DGP advised the Police Commissioners to form special cells in their
jurisdictions and firmly deal with drug peddlers. In this regard, he
wanted that police stations under whose jurisdictions the schools and
colleges are functioning to keep an eye on any suspicious activities
on the vicinity of the institutions.
Petty shop
keepers and vendors of nick-knacks near the educational institutions
should also be closely watched, the DGP advised. Anurag Sharma also
stressed the need for the police stations to take the assistance of
local intelligence officers in gathering various inputs regarding
notorious characters, who might be operating as dealers
of drug peddlers.
He made it amply
clear to the officers that it was imperative to unearth the ‘source’
of drug supply to the peddlers. For this, he wanted a close watch on
pubs and hookah joints being frequented by the students and youth
besides IT professionals of MNCs.
In the meantime,
with reports circulating that college students, especially those from
engineering colleges, have been regular customers of drug peddlers,
the Vice-Chancellors of all universities in Telangana State held a
high-level conference under the aegis of the State Council of Higher
Education to discuss the alarming issue of drug abuse in educational
institutions.
After a detailed
discussion on the issue, the meeting of the VCs has decided to
constitute an Anti-Drug Committee, which would act as a watchdog to
monitor regularly the implementations of various preventive steps to
be taken in all the colleges, including private colleges. The
principals of various colleges would form part of the committee.
Prof Papireddy,
Chairman of the State Council of Higher Education, said one of the
measures to be taken up on priority basis was installation CCTV
cameras on the premise of colleges. These would be
installed at strategic points in college buildings. While the
authorities of educational institutions would initiate all required
measures to check the drug menace, he also stressed the importance
and need for parents to keep a close watch on their wards and monitor
their activities.
Reference:
http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Telangana/2017-07-08/DGP-wakes-up-cops-from-daze-/311017
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