Project Prahari helps transform village into a role model

  • 05/03/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)

Under the Samaritan scheme of the Assam Police called Project Prahari, at least one remote village in the district is set to see a happier future. The project is a brainchild of the Assam DGP, Hare Krishna Deka. Ordinarily used to round up ruffians and maintain law and order, cops of the Khowang police station in the Dibrugarh district are taking up an altogether different role as society peers and thereby helping villagers to help themselves. Project Prahari was launched at the nondescript Bokahulla village on March 17 last year. During the past twelve months, the hundred odd families of the remote village