Andhra Pradesh is making it expensive to consume liquor while it works towards implementing prohibition, and women, especially those from rural areas who led the campaign to restrict the sale of liquor, are relieved the men are sober and not squandering their earnings.
After the closure of more than 40,000 illegal liquor outlets, 880 of 4,380 licensed liquor shops, and government taking over the remaining 3,500 shops and restricting sales, liquor consumption in AP came down by 47.87 per cent between May and October.
It began with women in many villages across Andhra Pradesh attacking “belt shops” — illegal liquor outlets — and arrack breweries in June 2017. Slowly and steadily, it caught on and it became a movement in the 13 districts of AP where rural women vented their ire against liquor shops, sometimes attacking them and breaking liquor bottles.
Read more of this in a report by Sreenivas Janyala published in The Indian Express... (Link given below)
