With the widening alcohol prohibition threatening to impact the country’s tourism industry, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Friday said it is not the states’ business to decide what a tourist should eat and drink. “Indian states can’t get into what a tourist wants to eat and drink. Just not possible...what he wants to eat and drink is his individual business and not the states’ business,” he said at India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in New Delhi. Tourism is essentially civilisational in character, you can’t have garbage and filth and say that we have great heritage sites. The proponents of prohibition maintain India has highest whiskey sales in the world leading to a plethora of social ills and needs to be checked.

Source: Hindustan Times October 06, 2017 12:56 UTC