Punjab has the second highest number of drug addicts in India after Nagaland, state Congress chief Amarinder Singh said Friday, quoting a United Nations Development Project report.
As many as 73 percent of the adults are addicts, Singh said, with 62 per cent of them between the ages of 19 and 24. He was speaking on the topic, ‘Punjab of my Dreams’, at the Punjab Press Club’s Meet the Press programme.
Singh expressed concern over rising drug addiction and flayed the SAD-BJP government for not taking measures to keep the youth away from drugs.
Singh also lashed out at the government for its failure to mend the “miserable state” of primary education. Schools are without proper infrastructure and teachers, he claimed. “When we can’t lay good foundations at the primary level, how can we expect our youth to compete at the university level?” he asked. The state of healthcare, Singh said, was equally bad.
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