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  30 March 2021   Sh.Anil Baijal, Lieutenant Governor Delhi, Esteemed Sir,  Greetings from the Healthy India Alliance!   The Healthy India Alliance is a coalition of 13 Indian Multi-disciplinary Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), working collaboratively to strengthen CSO capacity and engagement for Non Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and control in the country.     We are writing to you in reference to the recent amendment made on 22-March-21 regarding the Delhi’s Excise Policy. Through this letter we would like to express our concerns over ensuring lesser availability, affordability and acceptability to alcohol. The new amendment poses a threat to the future of Delhi as it will seriously affect the safety and health standards of youth and young adults. Keeping in mind the best interest of Child Rights conventions and the goals of building a drug free and healthy Delhi, we express our support against the new excise policy amendment using the evi...

"The increase in taxes of tobacco products is the need of the hour. It will substantially alter the behavioural pattern of young people towards tobacco consumption by making it unaffordable,"  Dr Anandjeet Goswami, professor and policy expert said on the occasion.    Lack of sufficient taxation on tobacco products as per the WHO FCTC norms, of which India is a signatory, is not just harming young lives but is also draining away valuable revenue of country which could be put to greater social good. Talking in the National Youth Conclave (NYC) of Nada Young India Network (NYIN) held in Delhi today academicians, health experts and youth leaders called on the government and policy makers to pass COTPA amendment 2020 urgently with stringent provisions and also raise excise on tobacco products in the upcoming Budget of the Union Government.  Dr. Mehak Segan, public health expert called on the government to save young lives by increasing the legal age of drinking and by cur...