In the Kachabali village, about 330 km away from Jaipur, a woman sarpanch created history by culminating majority votes in her favour for the anti-liquor campaign that she initiated this year in January. The polling was conducted by the excise department of the state on Tuesday and 94% of the voters said that they want a complete ban on the sale of alcohol in the village, per a report in The Indian Express.
The campaign was launched on Republic Day this year when women from the village raised the demand to ban alcohol during a meeting of the gram sabha.
“Alcoholism has been quite an issue in this region and women are the ones who suffer its ill-effects the most, so they had been campaigning for the prohibition for quite some time…there was a lot of excitement in the region about the vote…everyone from activists to school children wanted to be a part of the campaign. The media also covered the incident very well.” said Archana Singh, District collector.
