In anti-liquor agitation what was the law and what was the dissent??
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It is reported that the annual sale of TASMAC liquor in Tamil Nadu is in the range of Rs.25,000 crore, helping the government accrue several thousand crores of rupees by way of taxes and duties. As there is a deficit State budget and a huge expenditure to extend subsidised welfare schemes, there appears to be a reluctance to accede to the demand to close TASMAC shops. If these are closed, Tamil Nadu will have a large quantity of ethyl alcohol available which can then be used to produce value-added derivative products. Careful and dynamic promotion of molasses and alcohol-based projects can provide considerable income by way of taxes and duties apart from employment generation and the development of ancillary industries. The fact is that there are no worthwhile molasses or ethanol-based industrial projects in the State and most of the ethanol production is used to produce ‘Indian make foreign liquor’. In Tamil Nadu, around 3,30,000 hectares are under sugarcane cultivation, while that of sugarcane production is around 22 million tonne per annum. In addition, around 45 kilograms of cane molasses is produced from one tonne of sugarcane. The production of molasses can be in the region of 9.9 lakh tonnes per annum while that of ethanol can be around 2,40,000 litres per annum. There are several molasses and ethyl alcohol-based products which are not produced in Tamil Nadu/India but being imported in large quantities. Therefore, excellent investment opportunities to produce downstream products from cane molasses and ethyl alcohol exist in Tamil Nadu. Potential investment based on molasses/ethyl alcohol-based projects could well be over Rs.3,000 crore.
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