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INDIAN CAPITAL DELHI’S LEGAL DRINKING AGE REDUCED FROM 25 TO 21
By Siulan Law Mathews DipWSET
24-3-2021
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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced that the legal age to consume alcohol in the national capital will be lowered from 25 to 21.
The Delhi Cabinet has approved a new excise policy as well and the government will not run any liquor shop in the national capital.
The government will bid out the liquor license of government shops to private players. "It will be the duty of the private liquor shop to maintain law and order outside liquor shop," said Sisodia.
"The legal age to drink in Delhi will now be 21. There will be no government liquor stores in Delhi. No new liquor shops will be opened in the national capital," Sisodia said.
"Unaccompanied people below 21 years of age will not be allowed to be served liquor at restaurants in Delhi," Sisodia said.
Sisodia said the Delhi government will make a standard system based on which spurious and low-quality liquor will not be allowed to be sold in the city.
He said the new reforms are likely to yield Rs15bn to Rs20bn (USD208mn to 278mn) more revenue from liquor per annum to the Delhi government.
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