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The Uttar Pradesh government will run an intensive anti-drug campaign in universities and colleges, with daily student pledges, weekly awareness lectures, hostel monitoring and creative activities. The Higher Education Department aims to make drug de-addiction a part of students’ values and promote a healthy, responsible youth population for nation-building.

Lucknow, September 09: Under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the state government will make higher educational institutions the main centers of its campaign to protect youth from the harmful effects of drugs and make a drug-free life part of their values. To give Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for a drug-free India the form of a mass movement and realize the resolve of ‘Viksit Bharat-Viksit Uttar Pradesh’, the drug de-addiction campaign will be conducted more effectively in universities and colleges.

Under this, a comprehensive action plan has been prepared, ranging from administering a drug de-addiction pledge to students in every classroom to weekly awareness lectures, appointing nodal officers, monitoring hostels, and organizing creative activities.

Higher Education Minister Yogendra Upadhyay, while reviewing the drug de-addiction campaign at the Assembly office in Lucknow on Tuesday, said the Yogi government’s objective is to prepare a young generation through higher educational institutions, where drug de-addiction develops not merely as a campaign but as a value.

The meeting was attended virtually by the Principal Secretary, Special Secretary, Director of Higher Education and other departmental officers, as well as Vice-Chancellors, Registrars and other officials of state and private universities.