Recent media reports had claimed sweets and chocolates laced with narcotics were being sold to children outside some schools.
"We have requested our schools to put up their personnel near the gates and keep an eye on hawkers selling food items during breaks and after school hours," the general secretary of the Bengal chapter of the association, Nabarun Dey, said today.
The measures had been initiated in the wake of the media reports, he said.
Dey said school staff will mingle with hawkers to spot unknown faces and also look out for any new items being sold.
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To a question, Dey said while the association, under which there are some 200 schools in the state, had taken the initiative on the basis of the reports as a preventive measure, it had not come across any evidence of such sweets being sold so far.
"The health of our students is of paramount importance to us and we want to assure guardians about full- proof measures taken to ensure the safety of their wards," Dey, the Principal of Central Modern School, said. '
"But we hadn't come across any such incident," he said.
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