District Health and Family Welfare Officer M.G. Rama said on Wednesday that school teachers were being appointed as nodal officers to create awareness about drug abuse among students in schools and teachers.
Chairing a meeting of District-level Coordination Committee of Women and Child Welfare Department at the District Offices Complex here, Dr. Rama said that these teachers were also being trained on the subject of drug abuse prevention.
Deputy Commissioner Hephsiba Rani Korlapati sought a report on the number of times doctors visited educational institutions when incidents of drug abuse by students were recorded.
Chairman of the Zilla Panchayat Standing Committee on Social Justice Shashikanth Padubidri said that the police should question drug peddlers where they were getting drugs from to sell. This would help in nipping the problem in the bud.
Additional Superintendent of Police Kumara Chandra said that action was already being taken on it. But now there was information that students were getting drugs online. Investigation had been taken up on this aspect also, he said.
Ms. Korlapati said that the information about drugs being supplied online should be given to the Cyber Crime Branch. She also directed officers to collect information about shops selling medicine without prescriptions from doctors.
The meeting was informed that 13 dowry cases and 29 domestic violence cases had been registered in the district since January this year.
As many as 32 cases had been registered at Sakhi One-Stop Centre from September 2018 to June 2019. Of these 32 cases, 20 were solved, 11 cases were in courts and one case was pending, said Deputy Director of Women and Child Welfare Gracy Gonsalves.
