{"id":17205,"date":"2025-04-30T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/?p=17205"},"modified":"2025-04-30T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:48:10","slug":"punjab-launches-nasha-mukti-yatra-to-reach-every-village-and-ward-in-may-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/?p=17205","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Launches \u2018Nasha Mukti Yatra\u2019 to Reach Every Village and Ward in May\u2013June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaswinder Singh Sandhu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chandigarh, April 30-\u00a0Gearing up for final and decisive assault on the menace of drugs in the state, the Punjab government led by the Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has decided to embark anti-drug awareness and action campaign- \u201cNasha Mukti<\/span> Yatra<\/span>\u201d, which will be touching every village and wards of state in the months of May and June 2025.\u00a0Divulging the details a spokesperson of the Chief Minister\u2019s Office said that the drive will be organized by closely involving the Village Defence<\/span> Committees (VDCs<\/span>) to organize district-wise meetings across the state from May 2-4. These meetings will serve as the official launch platform for the \u201cNasha Mukti<\/span> Yatra<\/span>” campaign. Besides all members of the VDCs<\/span>, this meeting shall also be attended by the Village Sarpanches, Civil and Police Administration along with others.The Chief Minister has asked the Deputy Commissioners along with the SSP to form VDCs<\/span> in those villages where these Committees do not exist and invite them to these meetings. Similarly, Ward Defence<\/span> Committees (WDCs<\/span>) will also be formed in each ward in municipal areas and they will be invited to these meetings. Each district-level meeting will be chaired by a Cabinet Minister with a motive of sensitizing about the Nasha Mukti Yatra<\/span> campaign, mobilization of village-level leadership for community vigilance, strengthening coordination between VDCs<\/span>\/WDCs<\/span> and the District Administration and reinforcing a collective stand against drugs at the village level.\u00a0Subsequent to these meetings, the second phase Nasha Mukti<\/span> Yatra<\/span> will be launched on the ground from May 7 onwards<\/span> and in this yatra<\/span>, a meeting of all the people in each village\/ward will be held. This meeting will be attended by the VDC\/WDC, Sarpanch and other officers. Each village\/ward in Punjab shall be covered as per the schedule prepared by the state government.\u00a0The Chief Minister envisioned that this campaign will transform war against drugs into a mass movement, He solicited fulsome support and cooperation of everyone in the Society to ensure that no drug is sold in their area and to take all drug victims out of drugs. Bhagwant Singh Mann said that VDCs<\/span>\/WDCs<\/span> and Sarpanches<\/span> are expected to play a very active role in this effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jaswinder Singh Sandhu Chandigarh, April 30-\u00a0Gearing up for final and decisive assault on the menace of drugs in the state, the Punjab government led by the Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has decided to embark anti-drug awareness and action campaign- \u201cNasha Mukti Yatra\u201d, which will be touching every village and wards of state in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}