Children filling water into empty cheap liquor bottles |
The ‘Telangana brand new cheap liquor’ to be
launched soon will break the back bone of the powerful Village Development
Committees (VDOs) which are dominant.
An alternative power body controlling village
activities it collects lakhs of rupees from the contractors though open
auctions for selling toddy and liquor in their respective villages in all the
districts in the Telangana.
VDCs are losing their main income source, that is
giving permission for selling liquor in their villages (belt shops) with the
licenses being given to contractors by the state government to sell liquor to
be introduced.
The VDC s have stopped open auctions, giving
permission or selling liquor in their villages and also contractors are not
coming forward in the wake of licensed
shops to be set up in the villages soon.
Leaders of VDCs feel that state government is
snatching away their income sources to fulfill its coffer through license fee
and introducing cheap liquor.
Generally, VDCs will take up works like temple
constructions, village arch and purchase private land for schools and other
institutions for public cause. In some places, VDCs look after agriculture
activities and development activities and even some times they set the agenda
for political parties and collects money from the contesting candidates in the
elections to support them.
Yapalguda grampanchayat comprising 3,000 voters and
four hamlets in the Adilabad mandal has not conducted open auction this year
though previous contract ended one month ago in the wake of state government’s
efforts to sell licensed cheap liquor to check illicit liquor in the villages.
Yapalguda VDC member Ashok said ‘they have lost
nearly Rs 13 lakh income for one year as they had not conducted open auction
for giving permission to contractors to
sell toddy and liquor in the village in the wake of state government’s decision
to issue licenses to contractors to sell the state government sponsored cheap
liquor.
Habitual drinker Dasari Rajanna of the Yapalguda
opined that the villagers will get back the money they lose by stopping the
open auction for selling toddy and liquor in the village through state
government sponsored cheap liquor to be sold for just Rs 30 for 180 ml as it was
very less when compared to liquor being sold now.
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