Patiala News:Under the Drug-Free India Campaign, the administration is taking steps to provide training to 2280 teachers.
District Social Security Officer conducted a review
Under the able leadership of Deputy Commissioner Himanshu Agarwal, with the mutual cooperation of Social Security Department and District Education Office (Secondary), training of teachers was started at the district level to make teachers aware about ‘Mental Health of Students and Drug Prevention’. One-day training was given to 120 teachers at P.M. Shri Government Senior Secondary School Multipurpose and Government Senior Secondary School Civil Lines.
During this, teachers were given complete information about mental health and awareness, developing schools as centers of care and support, understanding adolescent development, creating a support structure for the well-being and mental health of students, understanding drug use and self-care (taking care of one’s physical and mental health), etc.
District Social Security Officer Jasvir Kaur inspected both the training centers and expressed complete satisfaction over the arrangements. District Education Officer (Secondary) Mamta Khurana and Deputy District Education Officer Dr. Ravinder Pal Sharma, through their messages, motivated the teachers to implement the information received during the training in the schools in a systematic manner so that the disease of drug addiction can be eradicated from the root.
Neeru Bala, District Nodal Officer of the Drug Detoxification Campaign, said that this training is to be given to 2280 teachers of the district in 57 batches by November 4. She said that due to the activities going on in schools under the “Drug Free India Campaign”, a lot of awareness is being seen among the students.