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Hill women suffer due to liquor-addict husbands

The rural women in hill villages are the worst hit by liquor consuming habits of their husbands, partial unemployment due to shrinking agriculture and of social and family neglect despite working hard for 16 hours a day to keep their family going. This impression has…

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Here, alcoholism is a big poll issue

Mayank Tewari, Bhikiasain (Almora) Hindustan Times, February 16, 2007 Troubled with rampant alcoholism, women in the Bhikiasain constituency of Almora district have fielded an independent candidate from the fairer sex. Supported by a local women’s NGO, Mahila Ekta Parishad, women from 62 villages met on…

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Drunkards Beware

Just eight months ago in Dhari, a village in Pithoragarh, Uttaranchal, liquor had made life hell for women. There were drunken brawls; women would be abused in front of their wailing children. But today, according to a Civil Society report, men here do not dare…

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Dehra Dun tense as D-day for auction of liquor vends nears

Hindustan Times, March 20, 1999 (Amitabh Srivastava) Tension is building up in the city as the D-day for the auction of liquor vends approaches near. The total revenue in this lucrative business along with lottery and quarrying in hill areas is about Rs 300 crore…

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TOI: Garhwal students prefer jobs to liquor vends

The Times of India, 17 March 1999 DEHRA DUN: Even as the concerned state government agencies in the Garhwal hills are preparing for the annual auction of liquor vends, which is usually held in March, protests are being made again against the ever-increasing sale of…

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Uttarakhand youth firm on fighting for liquor ban

The Times of India News Service, Sunday 5 April 1998 LUCKNOW: Battling for life, 22-year-old Nirmal Pandit from Pithoragarh district, now admitted with over 70 per cent burn injuries in the King George’s Medical College hospital here, has not given up hope to relaunch his…

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UP hills echo anti-liquor call: Slain scribe remembered in Uttarakhand

Hindustan Times, April 19, 1997 GOPESHWAR (Chamoli), April 18 (From Harish Chandola) The death anniversary of a murdered journalist, Umesh Doval, has provided the occasion to Uttarakhand activists to commemorate it with meetings to express their thoughts on the kind of a hill state they…

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