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The Mysuru District Tobacco Control Cell has booked a complete of 6,595 instances underneath numerous provisions of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products 2003 over the last six years within the district and picked up a penalty of greater than ₹9 lakh.
The offenders could be penalised upto a most of ₹200 for every offence, he stated.
The officers of all of the 44 regulation and order police stations in Mysuru district together with 18 police stations falling within the purview of Mysuru City Police Commissionerate carried out raids in opposition to violation of COTPA 2003 of their respective jurisdictions on Tuesday and penalised the offenders.
Meanwhile, the locations of vacationer curiosity in Mysuru, which have been declared tobacco-free on the event of World No Tobacco Day on Tuesday, should stay tobacco-free from henceforth.
The Mysuru District Tobacco Cell has requested the Deputy Director of Tourism in Mysuru district to declare all of the locations of vacationer curiosity in Mysuru as tobacco-free from May 31. “The authorities will have to maintain their status as tobacco-free from now onwards”, Mr. Shivakumar stated.
Oral most cancers screening was additionally carried out at completely different neighborhood well being centres and authorities hospitals in rural areas of various taluks of the district on Tuesday to mark the World No Tobacco Day.
Earlier within the day, Member Secretary of Mysuru District Legal Services Authority Devaraj Bhute flagged off a jatha from Kote Anjaneya Swamy Temple close to Mysuru Palace North Gate to the Deputy Commissioner’s workplace to mark the event. He was accompanied by Mysuru district Health Officer Prasad.
Mr. Bhute, who can also be a senior civil decide, emphasised the necessity to create consciousness among the many common public concerning the dangerous results of smoking.
The jatha, which was organised collectively by Mysuru Zilla Panchayat, Mysuru District Health and Family Welfare Department, Mysuru District Surveillance Unit and Mysuru District Tobacco Control Cell, comprised college students and college of assorted medical faculties, who held aloft banners cautioning most of the people in opposition to the dangerous results of tobacco consumption. The members within the jatha additionally distributed handbills in opposition to smoking to the general public.
Source: www.thehindu.com
