Maha minister urges youth to stay away from tobacco, liquor
Published on Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 15:00 | Source : PTI
Updated at Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 15:16
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Maha minister urges youth to stay away from tobacco, liquor
Maharashtra government has urged Doordarshan to broadcast an awareness message urging youth to take a pledge to stay away from liquor and tobacco related products as their New Year resolution.
Maharashtra government has urged Doordarshan to broadcast an awareness message urging youth to take a pledge to stay away from liquor and tobacco related products as their New Year resolution.
Social Justice Minister Shivajirao Moghe has written to Station director of Mumbai Doordarshan saying that the New Year celebrations had assumed dangerous proportion among the youth of today. "Several youngsters pay with their life due to drunken driving. Laws have not provided enough mechanism to nip the bud of this social evil," Moghe noted.
The social evil can be curbed only with people's whole-hearted participation, the minister pointed out. He has requested Mumbai Doordarshan to broadcast a pledge to be taken by the youth to stay away from tobacco related products and liquor on New Year's eve and resolve to stay away from such habits in the New Year.
Earlier this year, the state government earned the ire of a cross section of the society for increasing the legal age of drinking from 21 to 25 years. A PIL filed by actor Imran Khan against the decision is pending in the Bombay High Court.
