Spurious liquor can reach furious levels of societal decay. This truth that was lived by Vikharni village. Vikharni village having population of 4000 had 4 illicit liqour kilns, where spurious liqour was distilled and distributed as a brisk business. The women of that village were affected as their men would spend the hard earned money and also create lot of violence in their households. Their family life was disturbed as there was hardly any money left to educate their children or provide better nutrition to the children

The fight against liqour began in 2011, but gained momentum in 2013. Led by Sumanbai, the women of Vikharni first enrolled themselves as Tanishka Foundation members. Finally, when the village head – himself an addict – refused to entertain their plea, they cordoned him up at the village headquarters. Things reached a peak when even the police was accused of petty bribes in exchange of ignoring the liqour trade.

The struggle continued and a proposal to ban liquor was tabled by the Tanishka Foundation members at the village general body meeting, where the police sub inspector (PSI) was herself present. With the proposal passed, the woman soon marched to demolish these acid quarters. The forum members gathered support of two women whose husband’s were kiln owners. The final outcome was that the shops had to shut down in the village leaving the men with less options to buy liquor.