Nearly 70% Of Youth In Punjab Are In The Grip Of Drugs

[Sukhdev89]

Nearly 70% of youth in Punjab are in the grip of drug

News Source: www.punjabnewsline.com

NAWANSHAHR- Thursday, 25 December 2008: Even as nearly 70 per cent of youth in Punjab is reported to be in the grip of drugs, being smuggled, as per a secret report of state police, by well-established and well-connected people in the state, very few among the DCs, SSPs, civil surgeons and the director, social security and welfare, Punjab seem to be interested in controlling the drug menace.

As per a copy of the letter procured under RTI Act by general secretary of a local NGO, Human Empowerment League of Punjab (HELP), Parvinder Singh Kittna, after ten months of an order by PSHRC, only the SSPs of police districts of Tarn Taran, Bathinda, Mansa, Ferozepur, Ludhiana, Sangrur, Fatehgarh Sahib, Gurdaspur, Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Muktsar, Faridkot, Khanna, Batala and Jagraon and DC of Ropar and Civil Surgeon of Sangrur have so far sent their reports to ADGP,IVC-cum-Human Rights, Punjab regarding the smuggling and menace of drugs in their districts and the steps being taken by them to control the menace. It needs to be mentioned here that following a news-items published in the media, HELP, on November 28 last year, had approached the Punjab State Human Rights Commission seeking directions to the state police to initiate strict action against those involved in the murky business of drugs in Punjab which was fast becoming a threat to human life in the state.

The PSHRC, on January 3, had directed the state DGP to "take appropriate action" in the matter under intimation to the Commission as "it is definitely concerned with this menace which is blooming amongst the children and in a rapid manner threatening the life of the youth of the State of Punjab." "Such illegal activities are required to be discouraged and controlled with an iron hand and it is the primary duty of the State to ensure that every source of smuggling of drugs into Punjab from various states should be effectively curbed," had maintained the PSHRC in its order. Following the directions of PSHRC, the ADGP, IVC-cum-Human Rights, Punjab, on February 5, had asked all the DCs, SSPs, CSs and the Director, Social Security, to send their reports/comments to his office so as to enable it to proceed further in the matter.

On July 18, HELP had again approached the DGP to know the details of action and directions by him in the matter, besides seeking a copy of the report which he (DGP) had sent to PSHRC. Now, the ADGP, IVC-cum-Human Rights, in his letter dated November 17 has reported that a complete report would be sent to PSHRC only after the receipt of reports from all the districts. HELP which has lamented the nonchalant attitude of the state bureaucracy in such a serious matter as the menace of drugs has questioned the need to seek reports from the districts when the police itself had already a "secret report" containing information on the suspected people and their activities on the issue. The report was even reportedly submitted to the CM and other top echelons of the government. "Based on its report which had even specific names and addressed of those suspected to be in the business of drug smuggling, the state police chief, instead of writing to the district heads for further reports, should have immediately tightened noose on the drug traffickers", maintained Kittna who has demanded making public the top secret police report in the interest of the state.

-By Verinder Sareen

[guptveer1469]

I think its more than 70% of youth.. Even girls in unis are on drugs... they take lighter drugs like some kind of medicin..

Doaba is worst in all.. Sikhi vanishing and Monas on drugs etc

What can we do to control? (any ideas by sangat)..

[saint-soldier]

i believe indian government is doing exactly what american government did to african americans in 80's, they supplied drugs to black neighborhoods and then earned profit from it and when drugs reached the white neighborhoods it all of a sudden became a huge problem.

Watch drugs in punjab will not become a problem until non sikhs get hooked on them..... hopefully that wont happen and punjabis can unite to solve this problem.

[guptveer1469]

To above, veer... Sorry to tell you but even Hindus, muslim minority and some christians are on drugs in Punjab...

[lsingh]

To above, veer... Sorry to tell you but even Hindus, muslim minority and some christians are on drugs in Punjab...

I would like to see the numerous Sants and Babas that are doing very well address these issues instead of just looking after their Deras.

[guptveer1469]

Hanji

After Sant Brahmgyani Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale, basically no one tried to do parchar and stop youth from taking drugs. My only hope is on Sant Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale....

[Sukhdev89]

u r right sunny veer ji.. when ever i watch the diwans from dhandriawale. i see a lot of youth attend (i mean in thousands).. and most of em are MONAS..

i think itz because of sant ranjit singh being youth... thats y it attracts more youth....

i love when i watch the new diwans.. man.. i see more youth (Singhs and Singhnias) sitting in the front.. singhs wearing dumalas and singhnias wearing keskis....

vaheguru.

fateh

[guptveer1469]

So true veerji :D

But theirs still a long way to go..

But its very good that Sant Dhadrianwale is doing that!

I went on parmeshwardwar.com and was shocked to see how many people are administered amrit yearly

[Nirvair S Khalsa]

...and yet the numbers on www.ParmesharDwar.com are not exhaustive; a lot of the months are missing...

If one listens to the Gurmat diwaans of Sant Baba Ranjit Singh Jee Dhadrianwale, it is evident that they focus a lot of their Parchaar on tackling the growing drug-abuse crisis in Panjab (especially with the Sikh youth), which as people have stated above is much needed.

[Sukhdev89]

hanji veer ji.. if u check the years carefully, u;ll notice that there are missing months,. that means that there are way more people took amrit the it has not listed over there.

i think everybody gotta sit on the same stage in order to tackle this problem..

Akj

Damdami Taksal,

Sant Samaj

Dodra

sgpc

all the other samparthas and jathas of the khalsa panth

rather then looking at the differences between the jatha's, we have to start more focus on the similarities. thats is the only way out of this problem..

right now itz like this... there is a lot of parchar going on in Punjab and in foreign countries...

itz like this we have a lot of zeros, i mean millions of zeros... and each zero repsesnts each parcharak... but if we put ONE in front of the ZEROS, it will become millions and billions

but if we don't put ONE in the front.. no matter how many zeros we have it will stay zero..

so that one will come when we sit together on the same stage.. and do parchar together..

thats all..

fateh..

this is the only solution