Nithari, Noida: Nithari no longer has any faith in the system. Having lost their trust in the local police, the residents of Nithari village are now planning to carry out community policing to avert such incidents in the future.
Fed up with an inefficient and unapproachable police force, the villagers have convened a meeting of the panchayat, which is likely to decide measures for community policing in order to strengthen security and surveillance in the village. The villagers are planning to create a squad of young people that will patrol the village and surrounding areas 24 x 7.
"We have already worked out a plan. In our coming panchayat meeting, we will discuss all these measures. We will put a squad of youth in security duty and it will be alert against all suspicious-looking people and activities," PTI quoted the former pradhan (head) of Nithari village panchayat, Bikram Pradhan, as saying.
A huge influx of migrant workers to the village in the past few years has drastically changed the demography of the village, where the number of original inhabitants once stood at 5,000. There are over 20,000 migrant workers now, who live in rented accommodation in the village.
"The huge migrant population is proving to be a challenge. Parents go to work leaving behind their kids at home. In the most of the families, there is nobody to look after the kids," Pradhan said.
Besides community policing, the village panchayat may also decide to keep records of the people coming to the village and staying there. The families, who are renting out houses, may be asked to verify the antecedents of the people taking the house on rent.
Meanwhile, the villagers have become more careful in aftermath of the killings and are not allowing their kids to go to school alone, a PTI report said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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