JSU demands setting up of rehabilitation centre in East Jaintia Hills

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaOctober 22, 2023

The Jaintia Students’ Union (JSU) has demanded the State government to set up a rehabilitation centre to address the problem of drug addiction among teenagers in East Jaintia Hills District. 

In a memorandum to Social Welfare Minister Paul Lyngdoh, JSU said that the district has become one of the drug hotspots in the state. 

There is a surge in the number of drug users and most of them are teenagers.

The JSU urged the minister to intervene by setting up a rehabilitation centre to address the problem especially to ensure that underprivileged families can afford treatment for their loved ones, who are drug users.