Minister for HRD Ganta Srinivasa Rao has said a Task Force Committee with teachers, Excise officials and parents would be constituted to control the menace of drugs at educational institutions.
At an awareness meeting on the need to ‘shun drugs’ held at Dr. YVS Murty Auditorium of AU College of Engineering here on Tuesday, the Minister said that drug abuse would not destroy individuals but ruin the system as a whole.
He called upon the people to stand united in the fight against drugs.
Excise Commissioner P. Lakshminarasimham and Narcotics Director Venkateswara Rao spoke.
Andhra University Vice Chancellor G. Nageswara Rao presided.
MLA s Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar, Vishnu Kumar Raju, PGVR Naidu, Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy, Panchakarla Ramesh Babu and SP Rahul Dev Sharma were among those who attended the meeting.