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M R Sharan writes | What we don't understand about prohibition in Bihar: It’s popular

December 23, 2022 8:44 am

No policy can claim success if it leads to preventable calamities and deaths. But for half of Bihar, the ban on alcohol is a blessing

‘Those who drink are mahapaapi, not Indians’: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

April 01, 2022 5:25 am

The CM also made it clear that the families of those who would die of drinking spurious liquor would get no relief.

Facing backlash on prohibition, Bihar set to water down its harsh provisions

July 12, 2018 7:52 am

The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, and the amendments are set to be tabled during the monsoon session. Over 1.4 lakh people have been booked under the liquor law ever since it was implemented in April 2016.

Sangrur cop suspended after video showing him lying inebriated goes viral

Chhattisgarh delegation tours Bihar to learn from its prohibition experience

June 30, 2018 5:05 pm

The delegation from Chhattisgarh were briefed on the prohibition experience by former Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh, who has been appointed as Advisor, Policy and Programme Implementation, upon his retirement.

Prohibition in Bihar: Why Nitish Kumar says no to liquor

May 31, 2018 7:09 am

Prohibition In Bihar: After quotas in local body polls, bicycles for schoolgirls, prohibition was his idea for carving out a new political constituency of women. Two years on, it has paid off: more women vote than men in Bihar.

Where alcohol liquor prohibition has a silver lining: Safer homes more money

Where prohibition has a silver lining: Safer homes & more money

May 30, 2018 7:40 am

It can be seen on the faces of women in hundreds of villages across the state, like Manjhiyama in Arwal district, where the alcohol ban has meant more money in households, new houses and a better life.

Bihar liquor law targeting Dalits, poor: Opposition

May 29, 2018 5:10 am

Leader of Opposition, RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, described the liquor law as “a tool to harass the poor”. Mahadalit leader and former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi alleged that “the numbers show the real truth about the law”.

Prohibition in Bihar: Widows and elderly jailed, children picked up for ferrying liquor

May 29, 2018 10:38 am

Prohibition in Bihar: Police and excise officials say most of the liquor that enters Bihar illegally comes from across the India-Nepal border through Motihari, and from West Bengal (via Katihar), UP (via Gopalganj) and Jharkhand (via Gaya).

Bihar’s new sorrow

May 29, 2018 12:04 am

Nitish Kumar’s prohibition policy is visiting pain on those it was supposed to help — the poorest and most disempowered.

Bihar's prohibition crackdown: Two years later, OBC, EBC, SC, ST face the brunt

May 29, 2018 9:03 am

Under sections 29 to 41 of the Bihar Excise and Prohibition Act, which came into force on April 6, 2016, consuming, storing, selling and manufacturing liquor are non-bailable offences.