Hoshiarpur , Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria on Tuesday alleged that sure international forces had been serving to Pakistan to smuggle medication and weapons into Punjab throughout the border by way of drones, to destabilise the state and hurt the youth.
Speaking to mediapersons right here, Kataria claimed Pakistan alone didn’t have the capability to constantly push massive consignments of medication and arms throughout the border, indicating potential involvement of bigger international forces.
He stated drones had been getting used to smuggle narcotics and weapons to disturb peace within the state.
“Our safety forces are intercepting and destroying such consignments. Anti-drone techniques and different strict measures are being strengthened,” he stated.
Kataria led the “Folks’s Stroll In opposition to Medicine” from DAV Faculty of Schooling in Hoshiarpur on Tuesday, and stated Punjab may very well be made drug-free provided that the marketing campaign in opposition to narcotics became a mass motion.
The padyatra handed by metropolis markets and ended on the school premises. Vice-chancellors, heads of establishments, NGOs, non secular and social organisations, college students and residents took half in massive numbers and pledged help for a drug-free Punjab.
College students offered cultural programmes and road performs highlighting the ailing results of drug abuse.
Kataria stated the anti-drug marketing campaign was not political however a folks’s motion.
He careworn that instructional establishments have to be made drug-free on precedence as the way forward for the state relied on its youth.
Referring to the Punjab authorities’s marketing campaign titled ‘Warfare In opposition to Medicine’, he stated its success required collective efforts by instructional establishments, non secular and social our bodies, panchayats and residents.
On the latest deaths of two police personnel at a checkpoint in Gurdaspur district, the governor stated the matter was beneath investigation and it will be untimely to attract conclusions, although drug trafficking couldn’t be dominated out.
He additionally met members of village defence committees in Hoshiarpur and requested them to strengthen vigilance on the village stage.
He urged folks to tell police about suspicious actions, assuring confidentiality.
Senior officers of the district administration and police had been additionally current.
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