Question

How did anti-arrack movement become a part of women movement?

Answer 1

when the head of the household dies and arguments death due to addiction to alcohol the family faces a serious crisis which affects women the most due to alcoholism they have to deal with extreme sorrow and poverty this movement got the support of anti arrack Movement in Andhra Pradesh as a result of the government policy arrack dealers setup shops in every town and village the poor labouring people began to get addicted to alcohol,at the same time I literacy programme was been done in the villages of the state the Sita Mata (Sita story)was narrated as a part of this program it was a story about the Sita who create awareness among the people of the village and get alcohol to be banned from the village in 1992 the three years of the village in andhra pradesh drowned in a lake in the state of inebriation and died. at this is instant the women of the village came together and force the closer of arrack shops the the report of this news in the local newspapers had its effect on many other villages the movement spread to entire state and the government had to adopt a strict policy against the sale of alcohol