Click to play videoValsad (Gujarat): After live bombs were found and defused in Surat, Gujarat is still on the edge. Residents of a village in the state, Nargol, are infact doing their bit to prevent crime.
The village, which falls on the Gujarat-Maharashtra border, makes sure that everyone entering the region is frisked. Once cleared, each individual is given an identity card.
"It’s actually a good thing. At least innocent people have nothing to worry,” a scrap dealer Rambahadur Yadav said.
Nargol's obsession with security dates back to 1993. The RDX used in the Mumbai serial blasts was found 10 kilometres from this village, which was then a hotbed of crime.
After the blasts, the Nargol Gram Panchayat put in place an elaborate system of security checks like collecting photographs, fingerprints and addresses of people coming to the village.
"The village had a bad name and illegal activities had increased manifold when we started this new drive. It has paid off quite well,” Sarpanch of Nargol Yatin Bhandari said.
The police, too, say things have changed since the coastal village, with a population of more than 10,000 people, adopted its own security system.
"This move is worth admiring. The Vapi-Nargol-Umargam belt was notorious, but things have improved now,” SP of Valsad district D J Patel said.
After the serial blasts in Ahmedabad and recovery of bombs in Surat, Nargol's is probably one story Gujarat and the rest of the country should take lessons from.
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