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Delhi Drinking Age
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Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal govt reduces legal drinking age from 25 to 21 yrs

| @indiablooms | Mar 22, 2021, at 11:57 pm

New Delhi/UNI: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday announced that the Cabinet has approved a new excise policy to reduce the minimum age for liquor from 25 to 21 years.

Sisodia, addressing a press conference, announced that no new liquor shops will be opened in the national capital.

Notably, at present, 60 per cent liquor shops in Delhi are being run by the government.

"Government will ensure equitable distribution of liquor shops so that liquor mafia are thrown out of the trade. A revenue growth of 20 per cent is estimated after the reforms in excise department," he added.

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