{"id":219194,"date":"2022-12-20T18:42:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T13:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=219194"},"modified":"2022-12-20T18:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T13:14:35","slug":"hooch-tragedy-in-bihar-nitish-kumar-needs-to-learn-from-his-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hooch-tragedy-in-bihar-nitish-kumar-needs-to-learn-from-his-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooch tragedy in Bihar: Nitish Kumar needs to learn from his mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cHooch tragedy in Bihar: Nitish Kumar needs to learn from his mistakes\u201d <\/strong>published in the<b> Indian Express <\/b>on <strong>20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>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<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About prohibition movements in states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The death of over 70 people in Bihar after consuming illicit liquor underlines the challenges associated with prohibition.<\/p>\n<h5>About prohibition in Bihar<\/h5>\n<p>In 2016, the Rules of the <strong>Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act<\/strong> sought to punish the families of \u201coffenders\u201d, including fines, confiscation of property and jail. In 2018, some of the law\u2019s more draconian provisions were amended.<\/p>\n<p>However, from 2016, when prohibition was imposed in Bihar, to 2021, there have been over 200 hooch-related deaths in the state.<\/p>\n<h5><span id=\"What_are_the_challenges_associated_with_prohibition\">What are the challenges associated with prohibition?<\/span><\/h5>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fumes-of-failure-prohibition-is-damaging-bihar-in-multiple-ways\/\">Fumes of failure \u2013 Prohibition is damaging Bihar in multiple ways<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>States such as Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu have tried the policy of prohibition and understood that prohibition is not the solution to alcoholism.<\/p>\n<p>In each case, the policy has been withdrawn because <strong>a)<\/strong> it pushes consumption underground, <strong>b)<\/strong> places an undue burden on the law and order machinery, <strong>c)<\/strong> increases criminalisation, and depletes revenues.<\/p>\n<p>So, the counterproductive measure should be revoked in Bihar to save people and the exchequer.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 99.8647%;\"><strong>Must read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/prohibition-of-liquor-benefits-and-challenges\/\">Prohibition of Liquor: Benefits and Challenges \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cHooch tragedy in Bihar: Nitish Kumar needs to learn from his mistakes\u201d published in the Indian Express on 20th\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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hooch-tragedy-in-bihar-nitish-kumar-needs-to-learn-from-his-mistakes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hooch tragedy in Bihar: Nitish Kumar needs to learn from his mistakes<\/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":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-219194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704939135},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219194","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=219194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}