Punjab School Curriculum

Chandigarh (Gurpreet Singh): “I’ll try it only once.” “I can stop whenever I want.” Or the idea that even if one uses drugs for a long time, “rehab treatment is easy.” For a youngster standing at the edge of experimentation, these may sound like harmless thoughts. But these beliefs are not just alarming—they can be dangerous. The Bhagwant Mann Government, through the School Nashean Virudh curriculum, is working to prevent substance abuse among youth by challenging and dismantling such beliefs. This evidence-based curriculum, developed in collaboration with CEGA, University of California, Berkeley, and J-PAL, a research organisation co-founded by Nobel…