Give up on liquor trade, get Rs 1 lakh reward: Bihar govt's bid to strengthen alcohol ban
2 years ago

Give up on liquor trade, get Rs 1 lakh reward: Bihar govt's bid to strengthen alcohol ban

India Today  

In a bid to further strengthen the ban on alcohol in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar rolled out a new approach to tackle the menace of illegal and spurious liquor trade in the state. CM Kumar said that his government would give an amount of Rs 1 lakh to those who give up their liquor business to earn a livelihood. Speaking about the scheme to remit Rs 1 lakh to those who give up on their illegal alcohol business, CM Kumar said that it would be applicable not only to liquor sellers but those who trade toddy too. "If they leave the toddy business and start making neera," Kumar noted while stating that arrests were made of those who consume alcohol in Bihar, but not those who carry out its businesses.

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Bihar Alcohol Ban 2016-2024: Impact, Failures, and Political Future
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Bihar Alcohol Ban 2016-2024: Impact, Failures, and Political Future

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 26, 2024 19:28 IST - 6 MINS READ When Chief Minister Nitish Kumar banned the sale of alcohol in Bihar in 2016, it sparked mixed reactions. Once the liquor ban is lifted, that money will be dedicated solely to establishing a new education system in Bihar.” The Ranchi-based social activist Sudhir Pal, who supports prohibition, expressed disappointment …

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 …

Cong MLA B.R. Patil opposes liquor shops in villages, says govt. should not run on poor people’s money
1 year, 2 months ago

Cong MLA B.R. Patil opposes liquor shops in villages, says govt. should not run on poor people’s money

The Hindu  

Senior Congress MLA B.R. Patil’s opposition to the State government’s controversial proposal to grant licenses to set up liquor shops in rural areas and the remark that “the government should not run with poor peoples’ money” is likely to provide a spark for renewal of an anti-liquor agitation. Mr. Patil has questioned the government’s proposal on granting licenses for setting …

Bihar: Case filed against CM Nitish Kumar over 243 deaths in hooch tragedies despite liquor ban
1 year, 3 months ago

Bihar: Case filed against CM Nitish Kumar over 243 deaths in hooch tragedies despite liquor ban

India TV News  

A case has been filed against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish in the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court in Muzaffarpur over the death of 243 people in hooch tragedies. Court approved the complaint A complaint of culpable homicide has been filed by advocate Sushil Kumar Singh for the death of 243 people due to consumption of spurious liquor in Bihar. Bihar government …

Jitan Ram Manjhi appeals people in Bihar to vote for those who will lift liquor ban
1 year, 4 months ago

Jitan Ram Manjhi appeals people in Bihar to vote for those who will lift liquor ban

India TV News  

Bihar liquor ban: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Tuesday appealed to people to vote only for those who will lift the liquor ban in the state. While addressing people at Mangrawa Mahadalit Tola village in Gaya district yesterday, the Hindustani Awam Morcha chief said that liquor has been banned in the state since the last seven years, …

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 …

‘Nitish Kumar getting money through home delivery of alcohol’, claims Bihar BJP chief
1 year, 7 months ago

‘Nitish Kumar getting money through home delivery of alcohol’, claims Bihar BJP chief

Hindustan Times  

Bharatiya Janata Party's Bihar unit president Samrat Choudhary on Wednesday accused the ruling Janata Dal of an illicit liquor scam worth ₹10,000 crore, even naming chief minister Nitish Kumar. “Today alcohol has reached every home & Nitish Kumar is getting money through home delivery. Nitish Kumar’s party is doing a scam to the amount of ₹10,000 crores in illicit liquor. …

Nitish Kumar announces ₹4 lakh compensation for hooch victims. There’s a rider
1 year, 8 months ago

Nitish Kumar announces ₹4 lakh compensation for hooch victims. There’s a rider

Hindustan Times  

PATNA: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday announced a ₹4 lakh ex-gratia for the next-of-kin of people who died in hooch tragedies after prohibition was introduced in 2016 but stressed that people who seek financial assistance will have to reveal the identity of the person from who liquor was illegally bought. Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said next-of-kin of …

Nitish Kumar announces compensation of ₹4 lakh to those died in hooch tragedy since 2016
1 year, 8 months ago

Nitish Kumar announces compensation of ₹4 lakh to those died in hooch tragedy since 2016

The Hindu  

Making a U-turn from his earlier statement, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on April 17, 2023, announced the compensation of ₹4 lakh each to family members of those who died in hooch incidents since 2016. Mr. Kumar made the statement following the hooch tragedy in Motihari of East Champaran district in which 22 died after consuming spurious liquor on Friday night. …

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. …

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 CM Nitish Kumar directs to cut off liquor supply chain by arresting suppliers
2 years, 1 month ago

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar directs to cut off liquor supply chain by arresting suppliers

India Today  

The Bihar government has now changed its strategy to implement prohibition strictly in the state and decided that instead of arresting people caught consuming liquor, the focus of the excise department and police would be to cut the supply chain of liquor. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday chaired a review meeting on liquor prohibition in the state where it …

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 …

'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 …

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 …

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 …

'If You Consume Wrong Thing, This Situation Will Occur': Nitish Kumar On Bihar Liquor Deaths
3 years, 1 month ago

'If You Consume Wrong Thing, This Situation Will Occur': Nitish Kumar On Bihar Liquor Deaths

ABP News  

Patna: Hours after 31 people lost their lives due to drinking spurious liquor in two districts of Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday evening said that it is very important to start a campaign once again to tell people that consumption of alcohol is bad and a liquor ban is in effect in the state. RJD Blames Bihar Govt …

Bihar government to seal houses if used for liquor storage
3 years, 3 months ago

Bihar government to seal houses if used for liquor storage

India TV News  

In a bid to implement liquor ban in Bihar, the Nitish Kumar government has approved a proposal to seal warehouses or any other premises used for storage, production, sale or import and export of liquor in Bihar. Moreover, if any individual uses a section of a house for storage or area for consumption of liquor, the state government will seal …

'Find Other Ways to Make Revenue': Uma Bharti Urges Shivraj Govt to Ban Liquor in MP
3 years, 9 months ago

'Find Other Ways to Make Revenue': Uma Bharti Urges Shivraj Govt to Ban Liquor in MP

News 18  

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti has urged the state government to ban liquor in the state and find other ways to compensate for the loss of revenue. “Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP state president VD Sharma are also as much in favour of the alcohol ban as I am,” she said. If the vaccine was not …

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 …

Liquor Ban, Lack of Vigilance: How Drug Business Thrived in Bihar, Drove Scores to Addiction
4 years, 2 months ago

Liquor Ban, Lack of Vigilance: How Drug Business Thrived in Bihar, Drove Scores to Addiction

News 18  

The roads in Patna are packed with hoardings bearing photos of students who recently cracked the prestigious IIT-JEE or AIIMS entrance examinations for admissions to top-ranked engineering and medical institutes in the country. Many believe that the industry thrived in Bihar after the state government decided to ban alcohol, a promise which Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had made before the …

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