We, the volunteers and senior citizens support groups, Indian Temperance Youth Federation volunteers & members of Nada India Foundation network strongly support the petition filed with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh for scrapping a state government-sponsored policy diverting huge amount of grain to factories owned by a clutch of senior politicians of various hues for alcohol production. We also found it strange that at a time when the entire country was reeling under the impact of back-breaking food prices, induced primarily by reduction in their production, the state would pursue such a policy. We also appeal the Prime Minister to review such state policies and curb such initiatives. We also request Government to view the alcohol problem as developmental issue rather just as a disease of those who are dependent on it. According to the report published in The Economic Times on 23 February, 2010, as many as 36 factories, they had been granted licenses by the state government to m...
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