Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly speaker P D Sona on Thursday called upon the youths of the state to “get high on life and not on drugs”.
The speaker was addressing the ‘mock parliament’ organized by the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly for students of various colleges as part of the Constitution Day celebration at Assembly Complex on November 26 next.
Reiterating that drug menace is one of the biggest challenges in the society today, Sona made a fervent appeal to the youths not to indulge in substance abuse and suggested them rather to get high on life and not on drugs.
On the Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression enshrined in the constitution for every citizen, he asserted that when democracy gives us freedom it also gives us responsibilities.
He emphasized that the people should always analyse and introspect before speaking out their opinions on any platform.
Expressing serious concern over growing trends of cybercrime, cyber bullying, social media trolling and other related activities causing serious mental health issues among the youths, the speaker suggested the people especially youths to use social media responsibly and for the good of others.
Although the cyber world has opened a wide range of learning opportunities for the youth and children, these opportunities and the endless ocean of knowledge have some serious drawbacks and one of the evils of this increase of knowledge and connectivity is cyberbullying, he said.
“Cybercrime has emerged as one of the biggest modern-day challenges,” said Sona and urged the youths to be responsible and make use of technology for productive things.
SIC SP, Anant Mittal, SIT SP Rohit Rajbir Singh, Capital SP Jimmy Chiram, TRIHMS associate professor Dr Rinjin Megeji and IFS Rangphoa Ngowa attended the mock parliament as resource persons and spoke at length on wide range of topics such as cybercrime, cyberbullying, trolling, mental health, menace of drug abuse, etc.
Meanwhile, in the technical session students actively participated in the discussion and shared their views and ideas on the topics.
Taliha MLA Nyato Dukam also attended the programme.
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