Kozhikode: Tipplers can rejoice as the LDF government is going ahead with the plans to issue licences to breweries and also revise the high prices of Foreign Made Foreign Liquor (FMFL).
This was stated by excise minister T.P. Ramakrishnan here in an interview to a Malayalam news channel on Saturday.
He said that the licences to breweries would be given based on the report of the official committee constituted for it.
“The experts are working on it. The LDF government’s stand is in favour of giving licences to breweries,” he said and added that the panel formed for the purpose was framing procedures and criteria for the functioning of breweries.
On the high prices slapped on FMFL in the state, he said the FMFL sale was new to the state. “The price revision will be based on the feedback from the market,” he said.
The government also aims at increasing the revenue through the sale of FMFL, he said. Customers will be given quality liquor as well as services, he pointed out.
It may be recalled that the move by the excise department to sanction more breweries in the state had triggered a controversy recently with the prohibition activists raising much hue and cry over it.
