INDIA STATE CONTINUES LIQUOR SHOPS MORATORIUM
January 6th, 2014
The newly elected government of India’s Madhya Pradesh state today (JANUARY 6, 2014) extended a two-year-old ban on opening new liquor shops in the territory with a population of more than 72 million.“We continued with the policy because it was working well,” Narottam Mishra, Madhya Pradesh’s minister for health and family welfare told just-drinks. “Our government wants to discourage consumption of alcohol because it is a social evil,” another source at the ministry said.However, so called Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) such as whisky, rum, beer, ...
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