{"id":229657,"date":"2023-03-03T19:37:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=229657"},"modified":"2023-03-03T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:07:48","slug":"booze-policy-must-beat-its-licence-raj-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/booze-policy-must-beat-its-licence-raj-hangover\/","title":{"rendered":"Booze policy must beat its licence raj hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cBooze policy must beat its licence raj hangover\u201d published in <strong>Mint<\/strong> on\u00a0<strong>3<sup>rd<\/sup> March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong>Concerns associated with liquor policy<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Delhi Minister has been recently arrested over liquor policy. The article discusses the different types of liquor policies adopted by most state governments which help politicians to earn through it.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the different policies adopted by the government for alcohol?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Alcohol License:<\/strong> Alcohol permits are given to few private shops by the state. Through this limited permit\/license, government keeps a check on alcohol supply and controls the demand.<\/p>\n<p>However, license regime gives an advantage to politicians to receive bribe from private players.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tight-liquor Policy:<\/strong> Another way to check the alcohol demand by the government is a tight liquor policy. It helps in keeping the price of the alcohol high which in turn reduces the demand.<\/p>\n<p>This high price helps in earning more profits and helps the tax authorities to get revenues. This extra profit is again shared by the politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, there is a need to change the policy on alcohol and reduce the state discretion.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What can be the course of action?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Alcohol needs to be under GST<\/strong> and liquor policies should be made in such a way it focuses more on social safety rather than price and profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cBooze policy must beat its licence raj hangover\u201d published in Mint on\u00a03rd March 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance Relevance: Concerns associated with liquor policy News: Delhi Minister has been recently arrested over liquor policy. The article discusses the different types of liquor policies adopted by most state&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/booze-policy-must-beat-its-licence-raj-hangover\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Booze policy must beat its licence raj hangover<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"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":[212,10501,11125],"class_list":["post-229657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-live-mint","tag-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703080069},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229657","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}