GUWAHATI: Jorhat District Tobacco Control Cell in collaboration with the police and district administration is painting protective yellow stripes on either side of educational institutions that will be visible to prevent students from tobacco usage.
It is to be mentioned that the first yellow lines were drawn on either side of the Government Girls’ Higher Secondary School at Baruah Chariali with the support of students and staff of the school.
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Speaking to media, Bhaktimay Bhattacharyya nodal officer, District Tobacco Control Cell (DTCC) said that the district administration has decided to paint a yellow line on the streets to demarcate the 100 metre radius from the boundary of educational institutes in order to make it easy for the DTCC to prevent shops from selling of tobacco and tobacco-related products.
The drawing of yellow lines comes in the wake of a meeting when the administration had brought hookah bars under its scanner as a means of encouraging youths to take up smoking.