SHIMLA, Jan. 15 -- WITH a view to curbing the menace of drug abuse in the HP, the State Government has constituted 'Himachal Pradesh Nasha Nivaran Board' under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur.

An official spokesman said that the Board would have Chief Secretary, Administrative Secretaries of Home, Excise and Taxation, Revenue, Forests, Social Justice and E m p o w e r m e n t, Agriculture, Health and Education and Director General of Police as official members, while Commissioner of State Taxes and Excise as Member Secretary.

He said that Senior Journalists Ashwani Sharma, Prakash Bhardwaj, Birbal Sharma and Bhanu P.

Lohumi, Arjuna Awardee and DSP Ajay Sharma, Retired Additional Commissioner Excise and Taxation Sanjay B...