Get on Board the Anti-Drugs City Bus # 27! Spreading Awareness against Drugs through Messages
Mangaluru : He is a bus owner of city buses and he is also Concerned Citizen of Mangaluru, when it comes to bringing awareness on promoting Tulu language, and Cleanliness in the City, having come up with the initiative of ‘Go Green’ concept on his City buses. And this man is none other than Dilraj Alva, owner of FIVE private buses, and all of them bearing route number 27, and he is also the President of Dakshina Kannada Bus Operators Association. Having promoted recently about Tulu Language to be included in the 8th Constitution, painted on his bus # 27, Dilraj has once again come up with an initiative by painting few messages against the harmful of drug addiction.
Dilraj Alva, the owner of the private bus ‘Sri Ganesh Prasad- Route # 27, who has taken this initiative in order to bring awareness on drugs, which has been on the rise day by day- and even though the police are cracking down on drug dealers and those who consume them, there has been no stop to it. The messages incorporated on bus # 27 are – ‘Drugs Will Be Your Doom”; “Say No To Drugs”.”Your Life is In Your Hands”, and “Life Does Not Rewind”.
DILRAJ ALVA
Speaking to Team Mangalorean, Dilraj Alva said,” Earlier I had come up with initiatives bringing awareness on Environment, Saving Precious Water, and also support to include Tulu language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. And this time, as I see the drug addiction is rampant, I took up the initiative by creating awareness on drugs, and also on online betting which is also on the rise, and youngsters are getting hooked on it. This is not my first time that I am doing this, for the past six years”.
“My message to the youth is that “Do not take any pills or medicines of unknown source or without prescription, even if it is from your closest friends. Narcotics are the main cause of delinquency and crime, so beware of them. Avoid any financial temptation from drug traffickers as their money is illicit. Accidents on the road are linked to use of drugs and alcohol. Using drugs and psychotropic substances are more lethal for those who start them at an early age.” I only hope the messages on the bus will spread and bring attention to the government to take action and stop drug trade and drug consumption” added Dilraj.
