Don't come to Bihar if you have problem with liquor ban, says CM Nitish Kumar
2 years, 11 months ago

Don't come to Bihar if you have problem with liquor ban, says CM Nitish Kumar

India Today  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday hardened his stance against relaxing the prohibition law for visitors to the dry state. If you drink liquor and you are having trouble drinking alcohol in Bihar, then don't come to Bihar. There is no need to come to Bihar," Nitish Kumar said. Nitish Kumar reiterated that relaxing the ban on visitors from outside was out of the question.

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High on failure
2 months, 2 weeks ago

High on failure

Times of India  

Bihar’s Alcohol Ban and Prashant Kishor’s Bold Idea In Bihar, the government banned all kinds of alcohol, but it hasn’t gone as planned. But instead of solving problems, it caused new ones: Illegal Alcohol: Because people still wanted to drink, a huge illegal alcohol business started. Dangerous Alcohol: With illegal alcohol being made in secret, there were more accidents and …

Bihar liquor ban: Nitish Kumar calls for fresh survey to study impact of prohibition
1 year ago

Bihar liquor ban: Nitish Kumar calls for fresh survey to study impact of prohibition

India TV News  

Amid a liquor ban in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar called for a fresh survey to study the impact of prohibition on Sunday. Kumar made a remark to the effect at a government function organised on the occasion of 'Nashamukti Diwas', celebrated on this date every year when government officials and other public figures take the pledge to carry forward …

Hiccups in Nitish Kumar's Liquor Policy? New Tweaks Show Bihar's Booze Ban May Have Missed the Mark
1 year, 6 months ago

Hiccups in Nitish Kumar's Liquor Policy? New Tweaks Show Bihar's Booze Ban May Have Missed the Mark

News 18  

Is the 50 per cent insurance value too steep to pay? If you are caught carrying liquor in your vehicle in Bihar, you don’t have to pay a fortune now — Just pay 10 per cent of the insurance value and get the vehicle back home. Let’s make it simpler: If a vehicle carrying liquor was confiscated and the insurance …

Withdraw prohibition in Bihar immediately, says Prashant Kishor
1 year, 10 months ago

Withdraw prohibition in Bihar immediately, says Prashant Kishor

The Hindu  

January 30, 2023 07:05 pm | Updated 08:28 pm IST - Patna Poll strategist Prashant Kishor has demanded that the liquor ban in Bihar be withdrawn immediately. “There is no evidence in the world that any country, State, or society can say that they have brought socio-economic development to their people by implementing prohibition,” Mr. Kishor said on January 30, …

Bihar’s prohibition policy is not working
2 years ago

Bihar’s prohibition policy is not working

The Hindu  

The latest hooch tragedy in Bihar has put Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on the backfoot. With the death toll rising to 38 and with several people losing their vision and becoming critically ill, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has appealed to Mr. Kumar to reconsider the government’s prohibition policy and pay compensation to the family members of those who died. …

How Bihar hooch deaths show awareness alone can make Nitish's prohibition policy work
2 years ago

How Bihar hooch deaths show awareness alone can make Nitish's prohibition policy work

India Today  

As the death toll in Bihar’s hooch tragedies crossed 70 on December 17 and preliminary investigations indicated consumption of spurious liquor, the spotlight was back on the dichotomy between the Nitish Kumar government’s determined push to implement prohibition in the state and alcoholics unwilling to kick the habit. Though the Nitish government’s prohibition policy has been hailed even outside Bihar, …

Bihar hooch tragedy; Nitish Kumar insists kin of victims won’t get any government aid
2 years ago

Bihar hooch tragedy; Nitish Kumar insists kin of victims won’t get any government aid

The Hindu  

Asserting that prohibition will continue in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that “no compensation will be given to people who die after drinking spurious liquor”. Mr. Kishor, who is currently undertaking a Jan Suraaj Yatra across Bihar said, “People around Mr. Kumar drink liquor and he should rollback the prohibition police in 48 hours.” ‘No sympathy’ However, …

BJP MPs say Nitish Kumar should reconsider Bihar prohibition policy
2 years ago

BJP MPs say Nitish Kumar should reconsider Bihar prohibition policy

The Hindu  

Union Minister Giriraj Singh and Bihar BJP MPs in New Delhi have raised the demand that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar take a second look at the State’s prohibition policy. Personal prestige Pataliputra MP and former Union Minister Ram Kripal Yadav echoed Mr. Singh’s view and said Mr. Kumar should not make prohibition a matter of personal prestige. He also …

Bihar Citizens' Lives At Risk Due To Govt's Failure To Implement Liquor Ban: Patna HC Requests CJ To Take Cognizance Of Issue
2 years, 2 months ago

Bihar Citizens' Lives At Risk Due To Govt's Failure To Implement Liquor Ban: Patna HC Requests CJ To Take Cognizance Of Issue

Live Law  

In a strongly worded order, the Patna High Court has recently observed that the Bihar State Authorities have failed to implement a complete liquor prohibition in the State and the lives of Bihar citizens have been risked due to the state's failure to effectively implement the ban.With this, the bench of Justice Purnendu Singh directed the HC Registry that its …

Bihar govt should relax liquor norms to increase tourism: Indian Railway official
2 years, 2 months ago

Bihar govt should relax liquor norms to increase tourism: Indian Railway official

India Today  

The ban on liquor has affected tourism in Bihar, said an official from the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, adding that the norms must be relaxed. Speaking about its effect on tourism, Zafar Azam, Group General Manager of East Zone IRCTC said that due to the prohibition of liquor in Bihar, tourism is not increasing and foreign tourists are …

Those who consume alcohol are 'mahapaapi', says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
2 years, 8 months ago

Those who consume alcohol are 'mahapaapi', says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

India Today  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar called those who consume alcohol "mahapaapi" and said anyone who doesn't abide by the ideals of Bappu is not even an Indian. "If someone doesn't believe in the ideals of Bapu, then we don't even consider them an Indian.they are mahaayogya, mahapaapi who doesn't even listen to the father of the nation.," Nitish Kumar said …

Those who consume liquor are 'Mahapaapi': Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in assembly
2 years, 8 months ago

Those who consume liquor are 'Mahapaapi': Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in assembly

Op India  

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has noted that the people who consume liquor are “Mahapaapi”, “Mahaayogya” and that he doesn’t consider them Indians. Kumar was addressing the state assembly on Wednesday over the issue of the multiple Hooch tragedies that reportedly took the lives of 37 people after drinking poisonous liquor on Holi. They consume liquor even after knowing that it …

‘Those who oppose Bapu’s principles against liquor consumption are not Indians, biggest sinners,’ says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
2 years, 8 months ago

‘Those who oppose Bapu’s principles against liquor consumption are not Indians, biggest sinners,’ says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

The Hindu  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar now has called those who oppose Mahatma Gandhi’s principles against liquor consumption as “not Indians, ‘mahapaapi’ and ‘maha ayogya’ ”. “Mahatma Gandhi Opposed liquor consumption and I consider those who go against Bapu’s principles as not Indians, ‘mahapaapi’ and ‘maha ayogya’. ‘Yogya to woh ho hi nahi sakte…unke liye koi sahanubhuti nahi’ ”, he said …

'Mahapaapi, Don't Consider Them Indians': Cornered Over Hooch Deaths, Nitish Kumar Clarifies on Relief
2 years, 8 months ago

'Mahapaapi, Don't Consider Them Indians': Cornered Over Hooch Deaths, Nitish Kumar Clarifies on Relief

News 18  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is facing criticism over hooch tragedies in the state, has called the people who consume liquor “Mahapaapi” and said the state government cannot be made liable for providing relief to those who die after consuming toxic liquor. Speaking in the Bihar Assembly after introduction and passage of an amendment bill that seeks to make …

No jail if caught drinking alcohol: Here's what Bihar's new order says
2 years, 9 months ago

No jail if caught drinking alcohol: Here's what Bihar's new order says

India Today  

The Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar has announced that people caught drinking alcohol will not be jailed. As per the latest order issued by the state government, the police will not send those drinking alcohol to jail. The sale and consumption of alcohol were completely banned by the Nitish Kumar government in April 2016, a year after the Chief Minister …

Bihar Banned Liquor, But It is Still Available Illegally in State: MP Minister Pradhuman Singh Tomar
2 years, 11 months ago

Bihar Banned Liquor, But It is Still Available Illegally in State: MP Minister Pradhuman Singh Tomar

News 18  

Madhya Pradesh energy minister Pradhuman Singh Tomar on Tuesday questioned the liquor ban in Bihar, saying liquor is still available illegally there. Bihar banned liquor, but it is still available illegally. The minister hailed CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan for not allowing a single new liquor shop in the state, calling it a historical move. Meanwhile, the Congress took a swipe …

Prohibition Won't Be Relaxed for Those Coming to Bihar from Elsewhere: Nitish Kumar
2 years, 11 months ago

Prohibition Won't Be Relaxed for Those Coming to Bihar from Elsewhere: Nitish Kumar

News 18  

Demands for relaxing the stringent prohibition law in Bihar for those coming to the state from outside were on Friday dismissed outright by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The chief minister, who made the state dry in April 2016, made his views known at a gathering in this north Bihar district, which he visited as part of a statewide social reform …

Led by CM Nitish Kumar, Bihar takes pledge against liquor consumption
3 years ago

Led by CM Nitish Kumar, Bihar takes pledge against liquor consumption

India Today  

Asserting that the liquor prohibition law in Bihar will be enforced "more effectively" henceforth, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, along with other public servants of the state, on Friday took an oath to abstain from alcohol consumption for the rest of their lives. "I, Nitish Kumar, today on November 26, 2011, at the premise of Gyan Bhawan, with complete probity taking …

Nitish Kumar to hold meeting on November 16 to review liquor ban
3 years, 1 month ago

Nitish Kumar to hold meeting on November 16 to review liquor ban

Deccan Chronicle  

Patna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that he has called a high-level meeting on November 16 to “review the effectiveness of the liquor ban” in the state. This will be the second review meeting called by the CM after at least 31 people died due to the consumption of spurious liquor in dry Bihar within a span …

Bihar hooch tragedy: CM Nitish Kumar calls high level meeting on November 16 over liqour ban
3 years, 1 month ago

Bihar hooch tragedy: CM Nitish Kumar calls high level meeting on November 16 over liqour ban

India TV News  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday called a high-level meeting on November 16 to deliberate the liquor ban in the state following the death of 33 people due to consumption of spurious liquor in the state. We have called a high-level meeting, on 16th November," the CM said. As many as 33 people have died and several others reportedly …

Bihar hooch tragedy | At least 30 dead in 3 days after consuming spurious liquor
3 years, 1 month ago

Bihar hooch tragedy | At least 30 dead in 3 days after consuming spurious liquor

India Today  

At least 30 people have died in the last three days in dry Bihar after allegedly consuming spurious alcohol. Samastipur Superintendent of Police Manavjeet Singh Dhillon said all four deceased, including an Army jawan and a BSF personnel, were residents of villages falling under the Rupauli panchayat in the Patori police station area. Baikunthpur police officer Prashant Kumar said: "An …

Spurious Liquor Claims 3 More Lives in Bihar After Last Week’s Tragedy, 70 Hooch Deaths This Year
3 years, 1 month ago

Spurious Liquor Claims 3 More Lives in Bihar After Last Week’s Tragedy, 70 Hooch Deaths This Year

News 18  

Three persons died and three others fell ill on Wednesday allegedly after consuming spurious liquor in Bihar’s Gopalganj. Last week, too, four persons died after allegedly consuming illicit liquor in the Siwan district of Bihar, which has witnessed a number of hooch deaths this year. Expressing anguish over last week’s tragedy, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had appealed to people …

Dry state Bihar splurging on local, fake liquor in election season as netas buy in bulk | An investigation
4 years, 1 month ago

Dry state Bihar splurging on local, fake liquor in election season as netas buy in bulk | An investigation

India Today  

A cocktail of weak enforcement, corruption and the pent-up demand for booze -- more so during the ongoing election campaign -- seems to have created an active illicit market of counterfeit alcohol in Bihar where liquor was completely banned four years ago. LIQUOR DEMAND PEAKS IN ELECTION SEASON India Today TV has found that cheap local liquor is being packaged …

Bihar's women win against alcohol but lose to illicit liquor, drug abuse
4 years, 1 month ago

Bihar's women win against alcohol but lose to illicit liquor, drug abuse

Firstpost  

Prohibition in Bihar changed the lives of the state’s women in many ways — bettering some lives but creating new problems for others By Parth MN Her husband tried his best to dissuade her but Sakshi Devi, 30, had made up her mind. “Much like other states with prohibition, the liquor ban has not managed to keep Bihar dry,” she …

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