Uttarakhand’s income police system | The policing hole

A slender, slippery path climbs steeply for 100 metres earlier than you attain the distant chowki in Jakhnikhal tehsil of Pauri Garhwal district. The outpost is a rundown two-storeyed construction, its central corridor serving as a shared workplace for a number of patwaris—income sub-inspectors tasked with policing dozens of villages between them. A rusted lockup now holds previous paperwork and physique luggage; a bathroom has grow to be a data room. A couple of cracked chairs flank a bench; light maps dangle unfastened on the partitions. Roshni Sharma, 27, has been posted right here only a few months. “We deal with land data and police work, each,” says the younger patwari, who has seven villages beneath her jurisdiction. “It turns into exhausting to do both correctly.”