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Telangana, AP govts flayed
Liquor Control Movement Committee (LCMC) has demanded that both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments remove the liquor shops on the national and State highways.
Liquor outlets on NH
Hyderabad: Liquor Control Movement Committee (LCMC) has demanded that both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments remove the liquor shops on the national and State highways.
The LCMC leaders, at a round table meeting held at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram on ‘Roads and Liquor Shops’ on Friday demanded that the two Telugu State governments remove 1,500-and-odd liquor shops located on the national and State highways. LCMC State convener V Laxmana Reddy presided over the meeting.
Chairman of the Committee former judge Dr Ambati Laxmana Rao said that the the LCMC had urged the two State government to get rid of the liquor shops on the national and State highways by December 31 to prevent ghastly road accidents. He also appealed to the two Telugu State governments to implement the same immediately.
Welcoming Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s announcement that he would enforce a total ban on liquor from April 1 next year, Laxmana Rao said already Gujarat, Kerala, Nagaland, Manipur and Lakshadweep were implementing total prohibition and urged the AP, TS governments to control liquor first and finally implement the total liquor ban.
Convener Laxmana Reddy said one person was dying in a road accidents for every four minutes. India has 47 lakh kilometer roads and road accidents were taking place in India every minute. Both Telugu states should set up lead agencies with officials to monitor road safety, he said.
Freedom fighter Mallu Swarajyam felt that liquor had become a monster for the poor women, and both the Telugu-speaking states had failed to control the belt shops. Good Governance Forum secretary M Padmanabha Reddy said there was a dire need to fight against spurious toddy, which was destroying health of the poor.
K Sreenivas Reddy, editor Mana Telangana. faulted the two Telugu States saying that both were not even spending a single rupee to spread the message that liquor consumption was injurious to health. He also added that the two governments had miserably failed in establishing de-addiction centres to counsel the alcoholics.
Sakshi Telugu daily executive editor R Dileep Reddy felt that there was a need to launch a movement from village to State level.
