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Sandeep Ashar, TNN | Jun 2, 2011, 05.37am IST
MUMBAI: If you are below 25 you will not be allowed to drink hard liquor anywhere in the state. Fresh restrictions have been imposed on liquor consumption. The legal drinking age for rum, gin, whisky, vodka and country made liquor has been fixed at 25 years.
This decision was taken during state cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said that the "legal drinking age for these hard drinks was 1 years previously".
The legal drinking age for the consumption of mild beer has similarly been fixed at 21 years. The provisions are a part of the government's new de-addiction policy, which was cleared by the cabinet of ministers.
For all I care they can as well increase it to 50 years but the usual age in villages for arrack or cheap liquor consumption is around 16 years and in cities around 14 years, while some may restrict it to only mild drinks like beer, the rest would go ahead with the hard drinks.
Not all who stared early would become addicts but might give up early or confine to be social drinkers.
with this new policy changes there would be more officials who would be making extra buck in the name of granting permits, etc. or plainly threating to book cased under this act.
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