India, Aug. 4 -- As India aspires to become a Viksit Bharat by 2047, protecting its young from the scourge of drugs must be treated as a national priority requiring collective action

On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed over a crore young Indians connected from more than 28,000 locations to launch the Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat Sankalp Abhiyan-a campaign asking the country's youth to be both its target audience and its foot soldiers. The ambition matched the scale: a 100-week movement, unfolding every Sunday, woven into the larger project of a developed India by 2047. The message was blunt-a nation cannot be built on a generation numbed by addiction. The urgency is not manufactured. Government surveys already count cl...