Ahmedabad: While the raids and laws of more stringent liquor do not seem strong enough to curb the trade of liquor, city police will soon launch a complete scheme for the rehabilitation of bootleggers, especially poor women who choose this forbidden business to make a living.
Around 2000 and also over the past decade, police launched several drives where they rehabilitated several Bootleggers women from the Sardenagar area, Chharanagar, Gomtipur and Khokhra and gave them financially call training.
For the next two or three months, a wider scheme, with the help of several company houses, will be launched to fund the people who want to leave Bootleging and start a new dignified business, senior police officers said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 4, Rajesh Gadhiya, said the drive was launched in 2017 and will now be launched as a scheme.
“We are in talks with several houses companies that have agreed to fund the project.
We are waiting for the final design of the scheme and CSR (corporate social responsibility) funds from the company’s house and the scheme will be launched after that,” Gadhia said.
He said the police would identify the bootleggers who were willing to get out of trade and start life again.
“These people will be given training under various call courses and will provide tools such as sewing machines and beauty salon items among others so they will start their own business and start a new life,” Gadhia said.
In 2017, then ACP Manjia Vanzara had done a similar drive and advised around 500 people to leave Bootleging.
In Sardarnagar and the nearest area, around 60 women were rehabilitated, said Vanzara.
“Some of them started the parlor beauty and others began to sew clothes and got a dignified livelihood after that,” Vanzara said.
One of the beneficiaries is Sangeeta Indrekar from Chharanagar.
He said, “When my son Tustar was five years old, I was bootleging and when the project was launched, I decided to start life again.
I have achieved many things in my new multifotate field.” Indrehar said he was trained in embroidery and sewing and his son now has finished graduate.
Tushar Indrehar said, “I am proud that my mother fought against the opportunity to start a new life.
I work early at the research center and now I am a class II employee from the central government.”