Pb sports education officers asked to start anti-drug campaign

Punjab's education department today organised a special meeting of its sports officers in Mohali near here to launch an anti-drug awareness campaign amongst students with the involvement of sportsmen.
Olympian and former hockey captain Pargat Singh also chaired a special session on the negative impacts of drugs.
Presiding over the meeting, Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema directed all Assistant Education Officers (Sports) to intensify steps to make students aware about the adverse effects of drugs and encourage them towards sports.
Pargat assured to extend cooperation, support and assistance from sports fraternity of the state to make aware students the drugs and their negative effects.

He said sports officers should form district-level committees with the active participation of former Olympians, international sportspersons so that adequate steps are taken on the issue.
Focusing on sports reforms in education, Pargat gave a clarion call to physical education teachers to come forward to save the budding future of the nation from the drug menace.

Pargat, according to an official release here, said sports activities could change the fate of the nation by channelising the energy of our budding sportsmen.
He asked sports officers of education department to take sports at primary level to infuse sports spirit amongst students of elementary schools and added that it could play a pivotal role to curb the drug menace in the society.

Addressing the session, Cheema said every child should be engaged in sports activities from the primary level so that a healthy society could be formed.