Maharaja Bir Bikram University’s (MBBU’s) Red Ribbon Club and NSS Unit jointly organized an awareness program on the occasion of World AIDS Day on Friday. 

To mark the event, a poster competition was organized and a human chain was formed in the university campus against HIV/AIDS and drug addiction.

The welcome speech was given by the university’s associate professor and coordinator of IQAC Dr. Runu Dhar. 

In his speech, the university’s registrar Dr. Suman Chakraborty discussed the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the horrors of injecting drug use. 

Its horrors are being widely observed among the youth and student community. He called for organizing various awareness camps for students and youth. 

Dr. Ranjan Kumar Mishra, the principal of the Government Law College in Agartala, gave a detailed discussion on the various laws enacted to prevent AIDS. 
He informed the gathering that discriminatory treatment against any AIDS patient is a punishable offense under the law. 

Professor Satyadeo Poddar, the vice-chancellor of M.B.B.U., presided over this event. 

He said that one of the main ways to keep students and youth away from this epidemic is to focus on their studies and career building. 

He urged the students to be motivated to study and research, and discussed the importance of everyone’s overall cooperation in the implementation of various social awareness plans of the university. 

Dr. Debabrata Adhak, Assistant Professor and founder, Red Ribbon Club, gave a vote of thanks speech at the event.

In the poster competition, three students of the university’s mathematics department, Rima Sinha, Riya Saha, and Sabita Mushahar, won first, second, and third places respectively. 

At the end of the event, a human chain was formed against HIV/AIDS and drug addiction. 

In the human chain, more than a hundred people, including the university’s vice-chancellor Professor Satyadeo Poddar and the university’s registrar Dr. Suman Chakraborty, students, teachers, officers, and employees participated. 

The human chain was decorated with posters and banners prepared by the students. The main purpose of forming this human chain was to inform the general public and young students about the deadly addiction of drugs and to create awareness about HIV/AIDS, one of the consequences of this addiction. 

All the participants in the human chain spontaneously called for the formation of a drug-free Agartala through various slogans.