LAHORE: University of Central Punjab (UCP) and Drug Advisory Training Hub, a project of Youth Council for Anti-Narcotics (YOCFAN), signed a MoU to declare UCP a smoke & drug-free campus with a complete ban on smoking and legal or illegal drugs on university premises.
The MoU ceremony was held at university campus. UCP Rector Dr Muhammad Zafarullah and Syed Zulfiqar Hussain signed the MOU.
In view of the increasing hard and soft drug addiction observed in the universities and colleges of the country, UCP has pursued the programme of stopping the use of smoking and illegal drugs on its premises, becoming only the 2nd institution in South Asia to be declared a smoke and drug-free campus.
The UCP community comprises of more than 8,500 students, 500 teaching staff and 200 other staff. The main theme of drug-free campus programme is to stop the use of harmful substances and provide basic against their use.
UCP rector said that this is indeed a positive step to establish and declare UCP, a smoke and drug-free campus.
