Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria connected Sunday said specified ineligible enactment wasn’t capable to extremity the cause menace and that efforts should beryllium supplemented by creating jobs for the younker truthful that they did not indulge successful cause commercialized to marque money.
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“Mere implementation of the instrumentality and putting those progressive successful cause commercialized successful jails volition not beryllium effectual unless we supply employment (to the youth),” helium told mediapersons aft visiting a de-addiction centre here.
When asked astir his views implicit the problem, Kataria said the immense wealth progressive successful the synthetic cause commercialized was down the dispersed of the menace successful the state.
“Earlier liquor, poppy husk and opium were considered intoxicants. But past came these synthetic drugs that had immense sum of wealth progressive successful their trade,” helium said.
“ ‘Big dons’ got progressive to marque money. They roped successful the mediocre younker by paying them thousands of rupees to proviso intoxicants. This wealth origin led to the dispersed of the cause menace,” helium opined.
He said employment procreation could eradicate the menace. Kataria alleged that erstwhile governments did not enactment against the large food progressive successful the trade. “It is for the archetypal clip that the authorities has escalated enactment against large players by seizing oregon razing their properties. The authorities is doing a bully occupation to eradicate the cause menace,” helium said referring to the authorities government’s “Yudh Nashian Virudh” drive.
He besides stressed the request to make nationalist consciousness regarding the issue.“Only efforts of the authorities cannot extremity this unless nationalist consciousness is created,” helium said.
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