But in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, women have only sporadically campaigned against liquor and that too never at a large scale. Is it a build up to Uttar Pradesh going dry like neighbouring Bihar? “We have been holding awareness programmes in the state for the past one year – after Bihar enforced prohibition from March 1, 2016,” he says. However, according to him the movement got a big fillip after the SC’s order on highway liquor vends. The Akhilesh government had first written to all district magistrates seeking blanket ban on fresh licences for liquor shops on highway way back in 2015.

Source: Hindustan Times April 08, 2017 10:52 UTC