Dimapur, July 25 (EMN): A newly formed women organisation named Border Area Women Action Forum ( BAWAF) and her allied organisations in Karbi Anlong namely Karbi Students Association (KSA), Central Committee ; KNCA, Central Committee ; SYC , Central Council ; KANSU Bokajan regional Committee and Balijan Youth Club, Balijan (A), Karbi Anglong organised protest rally from Balijan (A) to Bokajan SDO(Civil), Bokajan against the opening of wine shops and bar in villages in the border areas.

Women volunteers and youths took the sloganeering and registered its first protest, some of the slogans which explicitly reads as “Save children, save women, stop alcohol; we want peace not alcohol; we condemn authority granting alcohol permission; alcohol spoils family and society".
Women forum also submitted a copy of memorandum to Sub- Divisional Officer(C), Bokajan which endorsed the authority to stop giving licence or permission to any person for opening wine shops and bar in the border belt areas and asked the authority to cancel the permission which earlier allotted in the border belt areas of Karbi Anglong.
Photo caption: Women volunteers organised mass protest against opening of wine shops and bar in villages of border belt areas of Karbi Anglong on July 25.