Chennai: Liquor Drinking the slogan will damage the family; Drinking harmful health drinks’ will be lost from the Tasmac signboard.
On the contrary, the new slogan is “alcohol consumption that is detrimental to health, safe – do not drink and driving ‘.
The change was made with amendments to Tamil Nadu Liquor (license and permission), 1981, notified in Gazette on September 1 by the Secretary of the Prabakar SK Nadu Nadu (license and permission) mandates the appearance of a signboard with a slogan in bold about the dangers of drinking.
As many as 603 drunken accidents have been reported in the city from January 1 to 30 June 2020.
The number is 1,229 for 2019, where 514 accidents involve motorists.
Against this background, the state of the state recently also announced a consciousness campaign against driving a drunken state.
4 Crore has been allocated.
However, the steps to change slogans have raised criticism.
Dr.
R Manivannan, Chair, Multyatitas Center for The traditional knowledge system, TN, and former Professor of Madras University, expressed disappointment over dropping slogans that consumption of liquor will damage family and country.
“By repeating the slogan, it can be understood that consumption of liquor supports the national economy …
Actually, liquor is harmful to the health economy because if you receive income from selling liquor today, you need to spend more money on health security people in The next ten years, “he said, added that Tamil slogans emphasized that liquor was dangerous for families and countries.
Revenue from the sale of liquor soared 8 times in 15 years after the state government took over the retail sales of the IMFL.