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Incentives for boosting liquor sales flayed

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Lok Satta plans State-wide
campaign against liquor

Kakinada: The Lok Satta Party women’s wing –the Mahila Satta -- has criticised the State Government for totally depending upon the revenue on excise and instead of discouraging belt shops, encouraging the officials luring them with the offer of posting to any place of their choice to those who fetch highest revenue on liquor sales.

S. Manorama, State Mahila Satta leader and party State committee member while addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, said that luring officials with such offers for boosting liquor sales was against the Directive Principles of the Constitution. She said many families were in distress now because of the liquor evil and the politicians were influencing the voters offering them liquor during elections. As a part of the strategy to reform the present political system, she said, the Lok Satta Party, along with its affiliate bodies, had embarked upon a State-wide campaign against the liquor evil .The Mahila Satta, she said, had started round table meetings with womenfolk to create awareness among them on the liquor evil and the damage caused by the innumerable belt shops. The women self help group members and non-governmental organisations’ support was being enlisted in the awareness campaign among womenfolk.

Ms. Manorama said as against 6500 licensed liquor shops in the State, there were more than one lakh belt shops functioning and if these shops were eliminated, the liquor sales would go down. She said the Mahila Satta would start the campaign against the belt shops in form of `Prachara Yathra’ on August 15 from Srikakulam district.

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