Ahmedabad: Gujarat Dry was mulling a proposal to relax the ban in Gujarat International Finance TEC-City (GIFT), Gandhinagar in an effort to attract national and international Fintech company to establish offices and lure talent of the state capital.
This step aims to offer “an evening social life” in town gift that is equivalent to what is enjoyed by professionals in the financial center and other technologies in India and abroad, said the high-ranking officials close to the development.
Push came under the union imagine gift city, which hosts the first international financial services center of the country, as a gateway to global fintech world.
On September 27, 2020, the management has written to the watchdog prize prohibition and excise seeking relaxation in liquor laws in the area of ​​Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
The request was to enable the “public social life the night”.
Concessions have been searched under 59 (1) (c) (c), 146 (b), and 147 Gujarat Prohibition Act, 1949.
Top sources said that the Chief Minister’s Office was in the process of dealing with the question of relaxation In the run- Gujarat Global Summit up to the dynamic scheduled in January 2022.
on September 20, 2021, principal Secretary has written a detailed study to the Additional Chief Secretary, Urban Development, preparing a road map to develop a roadmap for developing the City Gifts and peripheral areas.
Letter of Chief Secretary spoke about shoring road infrastructure, expand Gandhinagar to the river bank, and founded the Institute Fintech apart from legislation liquor relax.
Under current law, states allow liquor licenses to tourists and business travelers from outside Gujarat and India.
“In the SEZs, the current notification allows liquor only allow occupants.
This is not in line with the dispensation in other centers in India or abroad,” said a senior bureaucrat.
“To create an evening social life, which is at least as good as in other centers, jerur with wine and eat grapes facilities required in the SEZ.” Bureaucrats went on to say: “Liberation is required to create an international experience as well as to attract talent from the centers to compete abroad.” Prohibition is often a point of conflict between the business community and the political class cutting across party lines in Mahatma Gandhi’s Gujarat.
Pressure from stakeholders such as Gandhia organizations and women’s rights has filed a moral dilemma for policy makers when it comes to dilute the prohibition law.
Legislation has been in force since 1960, when Gujarat was carved out of Maharashtra.
However, lately, the chorus to ease the ban have grown louder since the businessman said laws are strict liquor often hinder the young talents of the dry state.
This issue was also cut during the meeting CM Bhupendra Patel with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during a recent visit to the country.
Earlier in August this year, the Gujarat High Court decided to hear about Merit nearly half a dozen petitions requesting the right to drink in the privacy of the home.
The high court called the petition can be maintained even though there are strong objections from the state government.
The petition, filed in 2019, has questioned certain provisions of the policy of prohibition and the applicant has demanded permission to consume alcohol in private places citing privacy rights just said.
Applicant also alleges that the government adopted a dual policy by allowing outsiders to visit Gujarat and defense personnel to drink.
In addition, the Petitioners suggest that the problem the government allows the rich to health reasons in a dry state.
They also challenged “disproportionate punishment” under the Gujarat Prohibition Act.