{"id":246118,"date":"2023-06-02T21:02:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=246118"},"modified":"2023-06-02T21:02:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:32:26","slug":"on-bihars-prohibition-policy-a-costly-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-bihars-prohibition-policy-a-costly-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"On Bihar\u2019s prohibition policy: A costly ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201con Bihar\u2019s prohibition policy: A costly ban\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>\u201cIndian Express\u201d <\/strong>on <strong>2nd June 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong><strong> GS Paper 2 \u2013 Social Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Bihar government amended the stern Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, which banned liquor in Bihar.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment is moved to relax the rules for release of vehicles impounded for transporting liquor.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle owners were abandoning their vehicles, captured for transporting liquor, rather than paying hefty fines to retrieve them. It resulted in over 50,000 four-wheelers being parked in 800 police stations across Bihar.<\/p>\n<p>The recent amendment allows the release of impounded vehicles upon payment of 10% of their insurance cover, as opposed to the earlier requirement of 50%.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the other changes introduced to the Bihar Liquor Law?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Now first-time drinkers will not be imprisoned. They can pay fine of Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 and walk free.<\/p>\n<p>The government has removed community fines, reduced the term of imprisonment for drinking from 10 years to five.<\/p>\n<p>Ex gratia payment in hooch deaths was restored to Rs 4 lakh compensation to the next of kin of victims.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the reasons behind relaxation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It shows that Bihar\u2019s liquor policy has not been successful.<\/p>\n<p>Bihar\u2019s liquor ban has led to a spike in illicit trade, hooch deaths, and arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of those arrested and imprisoned are from marginalized groups, including Other Backward Castes, Extremely Backward Castes, and Dalits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201con Bihar\u2019s prohibition policy: A costly ban\u201d published in \u201cIndian Express\u201d on 2nd June 2023. Syllabus: GS Paper 2 \u2013 Social Issues News: Bihar government amended the stern Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, which banned liquor in Bihar. The amendment is moved to relax the rules&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-bihars-prohibition-policy-a-costly-ban\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Bihar\u2019s prohibition policy: A costly ban<\/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":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-246118","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":1701613204},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246118","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=246118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}