Students rally against drugs

Campaign against use of habit-forming substances

July 29, 2017 12:07 am | Updated 12:09 am IST - KARIMNAGAR

Social service: Commissioner of Police V. B. Kamalasan Reddy talking to students of Jyothismathi Institute of Technology and Sciences in Karimnagar town on Friday.

Social service: Commissioner of Police V. B. Kamalasan Reddy talking to students of Jyothismathi Institute of Technology and Sciences in Karimnagar town on Friday.

Jyothismathi Brigade, a group of students of Jyothismathi Institute of Technology and Sciences (JITS) who have been participating in several social service programmes, took out a massive rally against the use of drugs in Karimnagar town on Friday.

As part of the anti-drugs awareness campaign the students carried placards on the ill effects of drugs on the users and their family and society as a whole. Commissioner of Police V. B. Kamalasan Reddy flagged off the rally from the Collectorate and also participated in anti-drug rally along with the students. The rally passed through all important streets of the town and converged at the Circus Grounds.

Crime stoppers

Speaking on the occasion, the Commissioner of Police complimented for the students of Jyothismathi Brigade for their efforts to educate the people about the ill-effects of drugs. He called upon the students to use the Hawk eye app on their mobile phones to check any kind of crime as responsible citizens.

The students wrote some catchy slogans on the placards like — ‘Drugs are like a knife which kills your entire life’, ‘Do dope lose hope’, ‘Drugs end our dreams’, ‘Dead – Drugs end all dreams’, ‘Delete drugs as they would delete you from this world’ — that caught the attention of the passersby. Jyothismathi Brigade coordinators Vishwa Prakash Babu and K. Radhika Reddy and other faculty members also participated in the rally.

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