Correspondent

Jowai, Oct 22: Members of the Jaintia Students’ Union (JSU) have called for Social Welfare Minister, Paul Lyngdoh’s intervention in the setting up of a drug addiction rehabilitation centre to address the increasing cases of drug addiction which has been noticed among the youth of East Jaintia Hills district.

“The problem related to drug addiction is nothing new in East JaintiaHills District. But with each passing day our district has become one of the hotspots of drug users in our state and it seems like there is a surge in the graph of the number of people being drug addicts and the most horrifying part is most of them are teenagers,” JSU Khliehriat Circle president, Livingson Sama said.

“According to us, today’s kids are extremely stressed about their academics, sports and career. They have this constant necessity to worry about lagging in the competition,” he added.

The JSU members were accompanied by MLA Kyrmen Shylla who has taken up this cause raised by the students’ body and has instructed authorities concerned to identify a proper site for this rehabilitation centre in the district.