{"id":219044,"date":"2022-12-19T18:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=219044"},"modified":"2022-12-19T18:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:29:51","slug":"fumes-of-failure-prohibition-is-damaging-bihar-in-multiple-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fumes-of-failure-prohibition-is-damaging-bihar-in-multiple-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Fumes of failure – Prohibition is damaging Bihar in multiple ways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cFumes of failure – Prohibition is damaging Bihar in multiple ways\u201d <\/strong>published in the Business Standard <\/b>on 19th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 2 \u2013 Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About prohibition movements in states.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The death of over 70 people in Bihar after consuming illicit liquor underlines the challenges associated with prohibition.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges associated with prohibition?<\/h5>\n

a)<\/strong> There will be an emergence of an illicit liquor mafia that smuggles liquor across state and international borders.<\/p>\n

b)<\/strong> Hooch-related deaths will increase as they deploy toxic chemicals to make hooch<\/strong>. This creates law and order problems<\/strong> in a state.<\/p>\n

c)<\/strong> The revenue loss from prohibition\u00a0<\/strong>is enormous. For example, 1)<\/strong> In a recent letter to Bihar CM, the Confederation of Indian Alcoholic Beverage Companies (CIABC) said the state lost about Rs 10,000 crore in revenues from prohibition annually.\u00a0Given the development needs of a state like Bihar, additional revenue could have been useful, 2)<\/strong> Prohibition policy in Haryana in 1996 cost the state revenues and jobs. To compensate for the revenue forgone from liquor sales, the Haryana government raised tariffs on state-provided services \u2014 from bus fares to power and petrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Prohibition of Liquor: Benefits and Challenges \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Why there is an increase in prohibition movements in states throughout India?<\/h5>\n

1)<\/strong> To gain the support of women voters<\/strong> as they bear the brunt of men’s alcoholic inclinations as victims of domestic violence and wasted incomes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> In India social-drinking norms are near non-existent and daily life is tough enough to encourage alcoholic oblivion among working men.<\/p>\n

What should be done instead of prohibition movements?<\/h5>\n

The government should move towards experimenting with alternative wage payment practices<\/strong> and gradually lifting prohibition <\/strong>in the states where it is implemented.<\/p>\n

Manufacturing and mining units<\/strong> in states like Bihar can hand over the weekly wages of men to the womenfolk like in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: The effectiveness of prohibition of Alcohol in India and some alternative policy measures<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cFumes of failure – Prohibition is damaging Bihar in multiple ways\u201d published in the Business Standard on 19th\u00a0November 2022. Syllabus: GS \u2013 2 \u2013 Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Relevance: About prohibition movements in states.… Continue reading Fumes of failure – Prohibition is damaging Bihar in multiple ways<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-219044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704939345},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}