{"id":54625,"date":"2016-05-13T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T22:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=54625"},"modified":"2016-05-13T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T22:54:39","slug":"ajmal-foundation-launches-drug-abuse-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/13\/ajmal-foundation-launches-drug-abuse-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajmal Foundation launches drug abuse awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0By Our Correspondent<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Guwahati: With rising incidents of drug abuse among youths across Assam in northeast India, a leading non-government organization of the region launched a mass awareness campaign about it with an aim to save the upcoming generation from the impending danger. We are deeply concerned about the growing drug menace in Assam. The rising trend of drug abuse among youths, more particularly in the student community, is really alarming,\u201d said\u00a0 Khasrul Islam of Ajmal Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to scribes at Guwahati Press Club on 12 May, the Ajmal Foundation executive added that they would start a series of awareness meets at educational institutions in Assam to sensitize the students, teachers and guardians. It may be mentioned that the Ajmal CSR initiative takes care of nearly\u00a0 100 institutions in Assam, where the awareness programs are planned to make the drug abuser &amp; peddlers a non-entity in the society.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ajmal-campaign.jpg\" alt=\"ajmal campaign\" width=\"576\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ajmal-campaign.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ajmal-campaign-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the media reports are pouring over the\u00a0 serious issue, Assam government led by Congress veteran Tarun Gogoi decided to constitute a task force to deal with the menace where various departments concerned like home, education, health and family welfare etc would be incorporated.<\/p>\n<p>Eminent personalities from different fields like Dr Minoti Barthakur,<\/p>\n<p>a cancer survivor turned motivation speaker, Dipankar\u00a0\u00a0 Baruah from<\/p>\n<p>Kripa\u00a0\u00a0 Foundation, psychiatrist Dr Pradip\u00a0\u00a0 Thakuria and physician Dr<\/p>\n<p>Juri Talukdar extended their supports for the cause and assured cooperation to Ajmal Foundation in the mission. The meet was also addressed by journalist Nava Thakuria, Nurul Islam Laskar and MRH Azad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By Our Correspondent Guwahati: With rising incidents of drug abuse among youths across Assam in northeast India, a leading non-government organization of the region launched a mass awareness campaign about it with an aim to save the upcoming generation from the impending danger. We are deeply concerned about the growing drug menace in Assam. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}