Drinking Age Reduced: After Delhi, now the state government of Haryana has changed the age of drinking and buying liquor. In the order issued by the government, it has been said that now 21-year-old youth in the state will also be able to buy and consume alcohol.
The Haryana Government has made a big change in the age of drinking and buying alcohol. In the order issued by the government, it has been said that now 21-year-old youth will also be able to buy and drink alcohol in the state. The Haryana Legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed the 'Haryana Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2021'.
According to this bill, now the legal minimum age for buying and drinking liquor in the state has become 21 years.
Amendment in Excise Act
Let us tell you that before this, a person below 25 years of age could neither buy nor sell liquor in the state. CM Manohar Lal Khattar's government kept its point regarding this bill in the Legislative Assembly.
The bill states that the National Capital Territory of Delhi has also recently reduced the age limit to 21 years. At the same time, the socio-economic conditions of today's era have changed a lot since the above provisions were included in the Excise Act. Today's people are more educated, in such a situation the youth can also take the right decision in the matter of consuming alcohol responsibly.
Delhi had changed
Let us tell you that earlier the Delhi government had also reduced the age of drinking and buying alcohol. In Delhi also the drinking age was reduced from 25 to 21.
age in these states
According to a study by Cantor and NFX, 46 percent of drinkers are in favor of setting the legal drinking age to 21 years and above. In many states, the legal drinking age is only 18 years. There are 7 such states in the country. These states are Goa, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Puducherry, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Andaman and Nicobar.
