Should there be a ban on alcohol across India?

MY PERCEPTION :

An Alcoholic would always go left and right.

1.  Alcohol official production gets approx. 10% revenue to the Govts, by way of Excise & Sales Tax and other taxes.     If this is discontinued,  the Tax payers (who are hardly 10% of India's population) will be heavily burdened by other levies and taxes that the Govt. would levy in lieu of loss of the above Excise / Sales Tax ...

2.  70% of  Alcohol production is done in rural areas (villages, hills & other backward areas)  which are not accounted for to the Govt. for revenues.  If official Alcohol is banned, then the 70% of rural production would jump up to 90% to unofficially cater to the official drinkers.

3.  Drugs and other intoxicants would gain upper hand and crime would increase drastically (which is now under control by the Govt.).  Alcohol is cheap with literally no ill-health affects.  Drugs etcc.  is prohibitingly costly with positve health destruction non-reversible tendencies.

4.  Approx. 60% of the Indian population consume alcohol or drugs or other intoxicants.  There will be  ascending land-slide cases of restlessness, nervousness, anxiety, sleeplessness and other pscyho problems, and moreover the lawyer faternity would lose hundres of thousands of cases pertaining to domestic violence, divorce and other related issues, which would have a cascading affect on the loss of judiciary revenues and it will burden the Govt.

5.  Banning Alcohol, would also mean changing the Customs of several communities of India.  What would happen to marriage parties and marriage violence etc...     Moderate Alcohol is  pure glucose to the human body and an instant source of energy, with literally nil negative effects on health. Alcohol restrains the body to go obese and intake of food is less compared to a non-drinker.

6.  If 60% population consume alcohol, then it also means that the alcohol money is put into circulation into the Indian economy, which is part of over 25% spending of the consumers.  Loss of several taxes, transportations, bribes etc... would be lost.

7.  Chandrababu naidu (erestwhile CM of Andhra Pradesh) had banned alcohol, pleasing just approx. 2% of the population (which was not democratic) and the Alcohol ban was lifted with much fanfare by our own elected representatives.

Blaming the democratic system is okay, but blaming the alcohol culture is unreasonable.

Drinking Alcohol may have not solved problems,  BUT drinking milk has not solved any problems either.  (remember Mahabharatha war and the milk/butter guzzling Lord Krishna)

Keep Smiling .... Hemant Agarwal