{"id":242641,"date":"2023-05-16T21:23:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=242641"},"modified":"2023-05-16T21:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:53:32","slug":"death-by-methanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/death-by-methanol\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by methanol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post has been created based on the article \u201c<strong>Death by methanol<\/strong>\u201d, published in <strong>The Hindu<\/strong> on 16<sup>th<\/sup> May 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 \u2013 Governance \u2013 Government policies for various sectors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>In two recent incidents in north Tamil Nadu, 17 people died and 50 were hospitalized after consuming spurious or illicit liquor.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, these incidents occurred just one month after the state government reported no such alcohol-related incidents over the last 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>Also, NCRB and union government reported a significant reduction in deaths caused by illegal alcohol from 2016 to 2021.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What measures were taken by the Tamil N\u0101du Government?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Since 2002, methanol has been brought under the ambit of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition Act, 1937. Methanol is said to be the main reason behind hooch tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>Tamil Nadu Denatured Spirit, Methyl Alcohol and Varnish (French Polish) Rules, 1959 was also amended to control methanol supply.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the shortcomings behind these incidents?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The recent events highlight administrative shortcomings, including insufficient regulation of methanol and a lack of monitoring of cheaper brews that compete with official retail outlets.<\/p>\n<p>These incidents underscore the need for a consistent and thorough policy to tackle the issue of illegal alcohol, along with a strict commitment to zero tolerance for this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Top of Form<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post has been created based on the article \u201cDeath by methanol\u201d, published in The Hindu on 16th May 2023. Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 \u2013 Governance \u2013 Government policies for various sectors News: In two recent incidents in north Tamil Nadu, 17 people died and 50 were hospitalized after consuming spurious or illicit&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/death-by-methanol\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Death by methanol<\/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":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-242641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704017752},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242641","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=242641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}