On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/5/14 lukhman_khan <[email protected]> > >> Obviously the person will have so little remaining on second day of the >> month, the govt need not worry about the rest of the month. > > > This was actually an effort to appease the female voters (Kerala being the > only state in India with more women than men[1]) who have been complaining > of alcoholism related domestic violence for some time now, and this was not > their first attempt. They even tried prohibition of local liquor once. Funny > anecdote from those times is a woman complaining that earlier she got beaten > only for 50 rupees, but now gets beaten for several hundred rupees worth > (the cost of IMFL) :)
Also, the high labour wages mean that there is a lot of money to blow immediately after payday. It is of course, bad for the government because they have a monopoly on liquor distribution in the state. -gabin
