Education Directorate Organises Mega Consciousness Programme on Tobacco, Drug Abuse, POCSO, and Sexual Abuse

Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 23 September 2025

In a significant initiative to advertise youngster security and foster a more healthy studying setting, the Science Wing of the Directorate of Education, A&N Administration, in collaboration with the A&N Police, Directorate of Health Services, Department of Social Welfare, and native NGOs, organized a large-scale schooling and consciousness programme throughout all Education Zones on twenty second September 2025.

The programme targeted on sensitizing college students in regards to the dangerous results of tobacco and drug abuse, the provisions of the POCSO Act, and points associated to sexual abuse. A complete of 7,234 college students actively participated, partaking with consciousness movies, PowerPoint displays, and interactive discussions.

The periods not solely highlighted the risks of substance abuse but additionally outfitted college students with sensible data on find out how to defend themselves and search assist in weak conditions.

The Director of Education, A&N Islands, introduced that such consciousness programmes will now be carried out each Saturday in numerous colleges, making certain sustained outreach and engagement with younger learners.