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Officials from the health department along with the Peren district administration during the enforcement drive in Ahthibung on May 2.[/caption]
Dimapur, May 12 (EMN): A team led by Officer in-Charge of Wokha police station, officials from National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP), Medical department, Dobashis (DBs), Excise department, and Wokha Town Council (WTC) conducted enforcement drive in and around Wokha town within the educational institutions and hospitals on May 10.
The team had penalised defaulters and seized tobacco products from the shops falling within the restricted areas and warned them against selling tobacco products according to Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003.
Besides warning against selling of tobacco products, the team further directed them to abide by the rules stating that it would be conducting such drive on regular basis. It warned that defaulters would be penalised according to the provision of law.
In another programme, office of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Peren, conducted its second round of enforcement drive in Ahthibung town on May 2 to ensure regulation of law with regard to prohibition of sale of tobacco within 100 metre radius of educational institutions and other offences under COTPA Act 2003.
A total of seven shops within the area were penalised with fine for direct and indirect sale of tobacco products and depictions of specified health warnings on tobacco product packages under Section 7.
The team that initiated the drive included Dr. Sabino, nodal officer NTCP, social workers, data entry operator, Peren (PDTCCP), police personnel from police station Ahthibung, dobashis and chairman of Ahthibung Students’ Union.
