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Kathmandu, May 26

The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued ‘Guideline to Local Levels for Control and Prevention of Drug Abuse,& to endegree that all municipalities and rural municipalities conduct remedial and promotional activities against growing abuse of psychoactive substances.

As per the guidelines, local levels scorridor launch anti-drug campaign in line with the federal and provincial laws and policies. Existing law has defined production, transportation, sale and distribution, storage and use of drugs as a punishable crime.

&Most of the drug users are youths and it is the need of the hour to keep them absent from drug abuse to realise the theme of ‘Prosperous Nepal, pleased Nepali.& Therefore, the campaign shall focus on cities and villages to raise awareness on social, economic and psychological affects of drug and alcohol abuse,& it read.

The guideline requires every local level to form a 13-member committee, led by its chief. The committee shall consist of representatives of youths, students, women, civil society and police force. It scorridor preserve a tight vigil to prevent production, smuggling, possession, sale, distribution and consumption of drugs. The country has a total of 753 local levels with 6,743 wards.

The campaign shall cover over 250 million population.

The guideline has stressed the need to overcome social and economic affect of drug abuse. It warned that drug abuse adversely affects health and life of the abusers, and the social well-being of the concerned family and community.

Types of drugs abused by people have changed over decades, from cannabis to synthetic opiates, and chemical substances. Also, the mode of drug abuse has changed from smoking or ingesting to injecting, which has become one of the major causes of HIV/AIDS contaminateion.

Factors such as curiosity or desire for an experimentation, desire for fun or peer presdegree, family problem and study problem, are main youth to drug abuse, it stated. The annual growth rate of drug users since 2007 has remained 11 per cent.

Growing abuse of psychoactive substances and injectable drugs has surfaced as a big problem in Nepal.

As the youths, who are the pillar of the nation, are increasingly fitting victims of drug abuse, the government has taken this issue seriously, it read.

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Remaining 3,000 kg waste at Mt Everest base camp shall be brought down by June 3

Kathmandu, May 26

Four-thousand kilograms of nonsense gathered from Mt Everest was brought to Kathmandu under ‘Clean mountain campaign.&Three-thousand kilograms of nonsense still remained at the mountain site, according to the Nepali Army.

The nonsense was gathered in collaboration with the NA, Nepal Tourism Board, Mountaineering Association of Nepal and Khumbhu Pashang Lhamu Rural Municipality.

Remaining nonsense would be brought to Kathmandu within June 3, according to NA.

According to the NA spokesperson largeyan Dev Pandey, the NA followed the command and directives of CoAS Thapa, which stated that the NA shall work for cleaning the mountain. This is the first time that the NA took initiatives to clean the tallest mountain of the world, according to Pandey.

The NA shall participate at a program in Lukla to mark the ‘Sagarmatha Day&, tomorrow.

&Twelve Sherpas helped to gather the nonsense above the base camp,& said Pandey, adding that the Sherpas gathered nonsense from different camps of Mt. Everest.

The Nepali Army first carried the nonsense gathered from Mt Everest to Gorakshep, located inside the Sagarmatha National Park, by a helicopter.

Also a helicopter was used to airlift the nonsense from Gorakshep to Okhalghunga. It employed vehicles as well as a helicopter to carry the nonsense from Okhaldhunga to Kathmandu, according to Pandey.

The NA has stored 3,000 kg nonsense on its office premises at the Tribhuvan International Airport.

It handed over 1,000 kg nonsense to Blue Waste to Worth (BW2V), a social enterprise committed to creating value from the mountain waste.

Pandey, said that NA shall hand over the remaining nonsense to BW2V on June 5, on the occasion of ‘Environment Day&.

He said that after completing the Mt Everest clean-up campaign, the NA shall continue its cleaning drive in other mountains of the country, on a precedence basis.

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