‘Dry’ Bihar to turn liquor bottles into glass bangles
The HinduIn dry Bihar the government has now decided to set up factories to make glass bangles out of seized liquor bottles through its Rural Livelihoods Promotion Programme, which is locally known as JEEVIKA. “Seized illegal liquor bottles during raids were earlier crushed and treated as garbage but now we’ll give these bottles to JEEVIKA workers who were trained in making glass bangles. Ever since liquor was banned in Bihar in April 2016, lakhs of illegal liquor bottles were being seized in different parts of the State, either by the district police officials or the excise department personnel. “Economic viability of government’s new innovative” Meanwhile, some businessmen sounded apprehensive about the economic viability of the government’s new “innovative” idea of making glass bangles out of seized liquor bottles. “I’m afraid this idea of making glass bangles out of seized illegal liquor bottles too would not meet the same fate of what Mr. Abhayanand had proposed in 2011 of making farm tools out of seized weapons”, veteran social activist Shiv Prakash Rai told The Hindu.
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