Alcohol will not be promoted: CM

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : Chief Minister Ommen Chandy on Wednesday said the bar licence would not be issued to three star hotels and that tourism development would not  anymore be based on  promotion of  alcohol. Speaking after the release of the ‘Prohibition’ magazine, the mouthpiece of  Kerala Prohibition Council, here, Chandy said that  the State Government  was not considering the  revenue from liquor as  actual revenue.  Instead, it has got a tenfold adverse affect on society.  He also said that the right to ban liquor would be given to the local bodies and the new law would be enacted after getting it passed in the coming Assembly session  in May.  The Chief Minister  released the magazine by handing over the first copy to Sugathakumari.