By means of PTI
IMPHAL: The Manipur executive has made up our minds to partly raise prohibition from the entire district headquarters, vacationer locations, and camps of safety forces, as a part of a brand new coverage which can lend a hand generate Rs 600 crore as annual earnings.
The state Cupboard took the verdict to partly raise the ban on brewing, intake and sale of liquor at a gathering on Tuesday, Tribal Affairs and Hills Construction Minister Letpao Haokip instructed newshounds.
On the other hand, the ones transporting liquor from one position to any other will require possessing a allow, Haokip stated.
The verdict was once additionally taken in view of well being hazards brought about by way of the intake of illicit liquor, he stated.
An enormous public motion had led the state executive to enact prohibition throughout the Manipur Liquor Prohibition Act 1991, which was once later amended in 2002.
Following the promulgation of the Act, sale, brewing and intake of liquor had been banned for all citizens barring other folks from the SC and ST communities who historically brew it.
On the other hand, in spite of the ban, liquor intake may just now not be successfully managed and alcohol remained extensively to be had.
The state executive could also be mulling to export historically brewed liquor from the villages of Sekmai and Andro that are famend for it.
The Manipur executive had lately despatched a cupboard sub-committee to Goa to review medical liquor brewing for export.
IMPHAL: The Manipur executive has made up our minds to partly raise prohibition from the entire district headquarters, vacationer locations, and camps of safety forces, as a part of a brand new coverage which can lend a hand generate Rs 600 crore as annual earnings.
The state Cupboard took the verdict to partly raise the ban on brewing, intake and sale of liquor at a gathering on Tuesday, Tribal Affairs and Hills Construction Minister Letpao Haokip instructed newshounds.
On the other hand, the ones transporting liquor from one position to any other will require possessing a allow, Haokip stated.
The verdict was once additionally taken in view of well being hazards brought about by way of the intake of illicit liquor, he stated.
An enormous public motion had led the state executive to enact prohibition throughout the Manipur Liquor Prohibition Act 1991, which was once later amended in 2002.
Following the promulgation of the Act, sale, brewing and intake of liquor had been banned for all citizens barring other folks from the SC and ST communities who historically brew it.
On the other hand, in spite of the ban, liquor intake may just now not be successfully managed and alcohol remained extensively to be had.
The state executive could also be mulling to export historically brewed liquor from the villages of Sekmai and Andro that are famend for it.
The Manipur executive had lately despatched a cupboard sub-committee to Goa to review medical liquor brewing for export.