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B'lore: Alcohol Consumers Increased in India - Survey

  •   Mon, Feb 25 2008 10:24:20 PM

Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (MM/RD)

Bangalore, Feb 25: Alcohol consumers are increased in India, says National Family Health Survey (NFHS). NFHS had done this survey all over India recently.

According to their survey, in the last 10 years, alcohol consumers’ survey has been increased up to 115 percent in the country. Meanwhile, the rate of consumption by a person has also increased in an alarming level. This annual consumption rate has been increased from 9.9 liters to 22 liters. Interestingly, one average person is drinking alcohol in 49 percent of families across the country.

In the meantime, alcohol consumption rate in the student community has also increased. 32 percent of the student community is consuming alcohol in India. Among the students, medical students are the leading alcohol consumers. Their percentage is 40 to 60. Moreover, new generation is starting consuming alcohol at an early age. Earlier, average age of starting consumption of alcohol was 27 years. Now, it has reached to 18 years.

62.5 million people are consuming alcohol in India while 22 million people are consuming it beyond the danger level. Similarly, 30 percent and 5 percent women are consuming alcohol in India, NFHS survey stated.
  

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  • Alfred J. Rebello, Kundapur/Dubai

    Tue, Feb 26 2008

    Since this survey conducted from Bangalore, I am sure it also included Karnataka. Therefore, what Karnataka Government achieved by banning Alcohol? They Made more & heavy drunkers and more Illegals because whenever one gets an opportunity they drink the maximum and that also spurious liquor.

    This destroys more homes. The Government should be aware, they can not dictate terms to drinkers. These drinkers, since regular alcohol is not available, they opt for spurious brew and it harms more. Therefore, Government instead of banning alcohol what they should have done is, educate people the negative impact of drinking alcohol by sending those people to the villages who knows the negative impact.

    Some of them suffered themselves and come out of it and they are the best preachers. Many men drink because they can not bear the tensions inside & outside the houses. Many women drink because drinking & smoking has become fashion to them and the young ones are perhaps drinking because they have not been properly guided from the childhood itself. Therefore, by banning Alcohol Karnataka Government created more heavy drinkers, more illegals and destroyed more families.

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