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Jammu: Facilitators of terrorists, drug traffickers and illegal miners will not be spared regardless of their clout, Union minister Jitendra Singh said in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district on Saturday.Addressing 'Empowering Youth for Viksit Bharat' programme, organised at Government Degree College in Hiranagar in Kathua -- part of Singh's Udhampur parliamentary constituency, the minister said a campaign has been launched jointly by the administration and police to deal with illegal miners, drug cartels and bovine smugglers in the region."All-out efforts are being made by the local administration and police to deal with these challenges. No one will be spared, irrespective of their clout or political affiliation when it comes to confronting smugglers, illegal miners and facilitators of terrorists," the minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office said.Singh said all sections of the society should come together to support the administration in its effort to curb the use of psychotropic drugs, rampant cattle smuggling and illegal mining.'Those who are pushing children of others into drugs must realise that their own wards are not safe at all as they are prone to taking to the menace because they are living in the same society," he said during the programme. The minister urged the college administration to organise special classes to educate the youth about the dangers of drug use. pti

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