{"id":215077,"date":"2023-04-21T00:33:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=215077"},"modified":"2023-04-21T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:03:07","slug":"prevention-of-drug-abuse-among-children-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/prevention-of-drug-abuse-among-children-discussed\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevention of drug abuse among children discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 20 Apr:<\/strong> Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) DC Talo Potom convened a meeting at his office here on Thursday to discuss prevention of drugs and substance abuse among children in the ICR district, &#8220;as per the guidelines of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, ICDS Deputy Director Aroti Tayeng threw light on the current status of drug abuse among children in the capital region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tamchi Taniang, speaking on behalf of the DDSE, informed about the campaigns carried out by the education department vis-\u00e0-vis drug abuse among children in primary and secondary schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He suggested to the authority to appoint a nodal officer, &#8220;preferably a principal\/headmaster, at the school level to identify the children who are in need of help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JJB LBO Tarh Nagu highlighted the need for government rehab centres in the ICR, and said that &#8220;the current reported cases are mostly being taken up at private rehab centres, which becomes a costly affair for the patients&#8217; families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also mentioned that there is no exclusive female rehab centre in the ICR.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tax &amp; Excise Inspector Tayem Jomoh presented a brief on the status of the CCTV installation campaign and banning of tobacco products in the vicinity of educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DC directed that &#8220;the data in compliance with the joint action plan indicator is to be collected and submitted to the district administration, following which a meeting will be held to discuss further course of action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, ADC (HQ) Shweta Nagarkoti, Capital ASP Thutan Jamba, and DMO Dr Mandip Perme attended the meeting. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 20 Apr: Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) DC Talo Potom convened a meeting at his office here on Thursday to discuss prevention of drugs and substance abuse among children in the ICR district, &#8220;as per the guidelines of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.&#8221; During the meeting, ICDS Deputy Director Aroti Tayeng threw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}