Jagran reaches PNGS with awareness on legal and policing issues

GANGTOK, 10 June: Leading Hindi daily, Dainik Jagran, has initiated a nationwide campaign organizing interaction programmes for school children to promote legal awareness and delivering better understanding of how policing works. For Sikkim, the programme on Legal awareness was held here at Paljor Namgyal Girls Senior Secondary School this afternoon with IGP [Law & Order] Akshay Sachdeva as resource person for the day fielding queries raised by the students. The programme was also special in its own way as this year is also the school’s 90th anniversary year.

The first such programme for Sikkim by Dainik Jagran was held at Greendale School here on 24 May.

Present at PNGS today were Dainik Jagran AGM, Jai Halder, Principal, PNGSSS, Jem Pandi N Targain, teachers and faculty members of the school.

The programme proved a welcome showcase of the inquisitiveness and curiosity of the students who frankly enquired on several issues related to their safety and the convenience of the society at large.

The students’ proposal of converting the main road below the primary school into a “No Horn Zone” was also taken into consideration by the IGP. The many sign boards highlighting the prohibition order in and around schools would be sponsored by the Dainik Jagran publication house in the coming days.

During the programme queries related to the safety of students while returning from tuitions or from school were also raised during which the IGP spoke about the toll free distress number - 100 - and also about how to contact the various police patrolling beats. He also spoke on the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and SAD Act, after which the students were also briefed on underage drinking and the different reform homes and juvenile detention centers.

Keshav K Chettri, Binu Thomas, Binita Sharma and Shyam Pradhan, all faculty members at PNGS also addressed the gathering today.