GramaRakhis form the core of Rural Policing in the State. They assist the local Police in departmental work i.e. in collection of secret information from their Beat Villages about the Warranties, Suspected / antisocial persons, Drug Peddlers, Unnatural death, Road accident as well as Law and Order situation. Besides, their services are utilized at the time of Election, Flood, Natural Calamities and at time of post-mortem of the dead bodies.

The duty of GramaRakhi as specified under “The Odisha GramaRakhis Act, 1967 and GramaRakhis Rule, 1969 are to move in the beat jurisdiction spreading over 6 to 8 villages for collection of intelligence on various aspects of policing and to report the matter at their base Police Station as and when required as per urgency of the matter or at least once in a week.

Police Station wise deployment of GramaRakhis in the District is as follows :

• Police Order No.246