More than a dozen of women from Basaharia village under Dhaka Panchayat in Bihar have started a campaign against drunkards and liquor sellers. They gathered in a form of rally at Dhaka police station and lodged their protest on 24 December. They were shouting loudly the names of defaulters and offenders who are illegally selling and consuming liquor in the village.
Meanwhile, a group of women raised its voice against illegal abortion and alcoholism in Dhanupura village near Nurpur, western Uttar Pradesh in the last week of December, 2012. Also a group of women has demolished a Bhatti (country liquor production house) in Mau Nath Bhanjan, Uttar Pradesh on January 2.