"DRUG ABUSE A SECURITY CONCERN"

Kolkata: "Drug abuse amounts to violation of the basic human right of
living with dignity," Justice Shyamal Kumar Sen, Chairperson, West
Bengal Human Rights Commission, has said.

He was speaking at a seminar organised by the Narcotics Control
Bureau here to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and
Illicit Trafficking.

Border areas vulnerable

"As the international border areas remain more vulnerable to
trafficking, the problem needs to be tackled at an international
level," he said.

Describing drug abuse as a security concern that was destroying
society as a whole, Mr. Sen called for a wider campaign to save the
youth from the menace. "But it is not the duty of school students but
the Government departments to carry them out, for which they must be
provided proper infrastructural facilities," he added.

Major transit point

M.K. Singh, the former Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau,
said that India's geographical location between the Golden Crescent
on the west and the Golden Triangle in the east made the country a
major transit point in the smuggling of drugs.