Success in containing Alcoholism

In many wards of Delhi, meetings of Welfare Associations are taking place from last one year in various localities. The residents, local leaders and government officials in the association meetings deliberate on the issues of development of their own areas. Sonia Vihar is one such locality. In a meeting of the

 

 

Association some youngsters demanded that the Liquor shop was far away from the colony and,therefore, a shop should be opened nearby. There were a lot of elders, present in the meeting, who were regular drinkers of alcohol but projected an image of being saints, started a discourse on the vices of drinking alcohol and advised that such a move was harmful for the local residents. In this open forum no one supported the motion to open the liquor shop and so the proposal to open the shop was shot down. 

 

 

It is very difficult for anyone to get a proposal which is not in the interest of the community to be passed in an open forum. 

 

 

In today’s laws the permission to open a shop of liquor is to be taken from the government officials or local leaders. No one ever bothers to ask the people if they like it or not. Political leaders and the government officials accept bribes and give permission to open the shops. If a law is enacted that no liquor shop can be opened without the consent of the gram sabhas or the local resident association then it will become very difficult to open the liquor shops. Such a law will be a great step in curbing the prevalence of alcoholism in the society.