PESHAWAR: Commissioner Peshawar has ordered to conduct dope test of students in schools, colleges and universities across the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to sources outhouse to the matter, the staffers from the health and other concerned departments will visit the educational institutes and conduct dope test on students.
“The process will begin from September and anyone who test positive for it will be shifted to rehabilitation centres,” they said.
Gangs selling drugs to students have been smashed earlier, raising alarm bells among the authorities to take stern action beside the peddlers.
In an alike move to keep in check use of drugs among students, the Punjab government decided to bar students using drugs and addictive to smoking from attainment college admissions in intermediate part one.
It occurred that those students who are addictive of drugs and smoking will not be given admissions in first-year studies in colleges in a bid to depress usage of narcotics between the young generation.
Punjab’s Director Public Instructions (DPI) Colleges also arranged a health questionnaire for the intermediate students besides sending a summary to the provincial higher education department.
The health statement form will gather all records of students and declared compulsory for all students willing to take admission in the colleges for intermediate courses.
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The students will be directed to fill all sections (Part A, B, C, D and E) of the health form which will be authenticated by the concerned institution.
Furthermore, a psychiatrist will issue a health clearance certificate for the students and the physician will be given authority to recommend urine and blood tests.