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Chandrapur (Maharashtra): Tribal women from Maharashtra's Chandrapur have sent 80,000
postcards to Chief Miniter Prithviraj Chavan asking to make the
district liquor-free, a social activist said Sunday.
"This is a last-ditch effort by the tribal women of the district
to demand a ban on liquor," said Paromita Goswami, a lawyer and
social activist, who led the postcard campaign.
"The demand to ban liquor is being made since 2010. We have been
asking a reassessment of the state government's policy on liquor
in the district, including the sale of country liquor and Indian
made foreign liquor," Goswami told IANS.
"Sale and consumption of alcohol is banned in the neighbouring
districts of Wardha and Gadchiroli. Hence, Chandrapur has turned
into a centre for liquor smuggling," Goswami said.
A seven-member panel headed by District Guardian Minister Sanjay
Deotale has already submitted a report to the state government in
February this year.
"When we met Chavan in April 2012, we were promised that the
report would be tabled in the assembly, but nothing has been done
so far.
"We had also submitted petitions signed by over 100,000 women,
2,200 organisations and many gram panchayats, who supported the
prohibition. A letter by 50 eminent people from the district was
also a part of the petition," Goswami said.
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