nagpur senior inspector vaijayanti mandodhawde of beltarodi police station last week had to counsel at length a 13yearold liquor addict also a standard viii student to abandon bad habits and handed over some notes book to him with homeworkwith many criminally active slums within the police station limits mandodhawde had undertaken special social policing drive to counter illegal activities and grow peoples faith on the policing mandodhawde too had received a positive response of her efforts when some women had helped her team to zero down on a goon possessing firearms in one of the slumsmandodhawde was surprised during one of her slum visits to know about the minor having developed liquor addiction and was mostly spotted with antisocial elementsmandodhawde who had adopted mahakali nagar and kaikadi nagar slums especially to keep minors away from crimes and other illegal activities had brought the teenager and his parents to police station for counselingthe senior inspector had also strictly warned the boys father from indulging in drinking habits and ignore the sons wellbeing he too was found a liquor addict leaving the senior cop with no choice but to conduct a joint counseling of the fatherson duomandodhawde said she had come to know how some adult youngsters would entice the minor with free alcohols and hooked to mobile phone games and other objectionable viewing having spent considerable time with the boy i had given few notebooks to the minor with a task to find out the syllabus of standard viii from his neighbours and remained updated with the school curriculum said mandodhawde adding the boy was also told by her that she would make frequent checks at her home to oversee his educationmandodhawde said separate meetings of the girls especially the teenagers were also undertaken by her under police didi scheme under guidance of jt cp ashwati dorje explained the teenagers girls about the love traps and tried to encourage sports and education among them got names of few girls who were interested in sports and connected some people who can help even a ngo is coming forward to help police said shemandodhawde also said as per cp amitesh kumars plan efforts are now being taken to identify the minors having crime records at the slums and counsel them apart from keeping a tab on their activities i am always equipped with notebooks pens and pencil in my police vehicle while visiting slums and distribute them among the students just trying to create a role model for the slum children with someone from them for inspiration said the senior pi