Sunday in Kerala to be Dry Day

With the starting of the new Liquor policy in Kerala Sundays in Kerala will be dry day. The government have made the new policy in order to lower the consumption of liquor in the state.

All bar hotels and retail liquor outlets remained closed on Sunday, which would have been normally the wettest day in a week. Now Sundays would join the already existing 26 dry days in Kerala.

Owners of 312 bar hotels have contested the state liquor policy in the high court. They had claimed that the bars could operate on Sunday until the verdict of the high court. But, the state government took a tough decision to close down all bar and retails outlets on Sunday.

Last week, the state had permanently closed down 39 retail liquor outlets in tune with the new policy that 10 per cent of the outlets would be wound up in every year. These outlets were picked from across the state. However, tippers had moved to other outlets, which had witnessed unusual rush in the last two days.

Src- http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/keralas-liquor-policy-sundays-to-be-dry-days/

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