Imphal, February 15, 2010: All Manipur Anti-Drug Association (AMADA), with the objective of stopping from mass scale cultivation of poppy plant, started launching campaign drive to aware the people on the evil of the plant from today at Leingang Ching village in Ukhrul district.

Speaking at the awareness programme, human resources secretary K Hemabati Chanu expressed apprehension that one day the society will submerged into the sea of intoxicant items and called for a concerted effort to save from happening this.

"One day by the impact of the consumption of intoxicant items, the society will be extinct.

To save from happening this, we the people of the state must take a concrete decision to eliminate from the soil of the state," Hemabati said.

Recalling how AMADA came to existence on December 15, 2005, she said that since the setting up, AMADA has been efforting tirelessly to aware the people to fulfill its objective of eleiminating all kinds of intoxicant items from the state through various awareness programmes.

The body had conducted various programmes at school, college and other educational institutes and the awareness holding today at Leingang Ching of Ukhrul is the 27th awareness programme and its aims at stopping villagers from cultivating poppy plant, she said.

She also said that further awareness programmes will be held at other places like Chandel, Jiri, Senapati, Churachandpur and Moreh etc.

She also appealed the gathering to advise the volunteers of the body for batter effective campaign to aware the people.

On the occasion, Dr H Angomcha of Bishnupur district hospital talked on "Opium-what is our future", advocate Hawaibam Samarjit on "Illicit trafficking of Opium" as resource person of the programme.

Chief of Leingang Ching talking to the gathering praised for organising the awareness programme in the village saying that many things about the evil of intoxicant items could be known from the programme.

If future, he will ask his villagers not to engage in growing or cultivating plants of intoxicant items in their fields, he added.

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