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The <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> might modify its order on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Good-karma-or-bad-Man-behind-liquor-ban-cant-find-liquor-nearby/articleshow/57985331.cms">ban on sale of liquor</a> within 500 meters of national and state highways in the second week of July. Hotels and clubs, which were forced to stop serving alcohol following the order, had sought changes in the order. Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/FHRAI-To-Seek-Legal-Redressal-regarding-Liquor-Ban-on-Highways/articleshow/58179341.cms">FHRAI To Seek Legal Redressal regarding Liquor Ban on Highways</a> In its order, SC had already exempted Sikkim and Meghalaya states from the ban, keeping in mind their topography and terrain. "Our request is not to dilute the judgment of the SC <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Liquor-ban-would-dent-state-governments-estimated-revenue-by-Rs-50000-crore/articleshow/57985674.cms">banning liquor</a> sale on the highways at all. This application is to draw attention to the plight of 93 hotels in Tamil Nadu which have invested Rs 6,133 crore and employ about 9,450 people directly and 94,500 indirectly to promote tourism," said the statement from South India Hotels and Restaurants Association. Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Good-karma-or-bad-Man-behind-liquor-ban-cant-find-liquor-nearby/articleshow/57985331.cms">Good karma or bad? Man behind liquor ban can’t find liquor nearby</a>"Due to flaws in the system followed by state governments in notifying highways, the SC's judgement to ban liqour has brought down with it certain <a href="http://www1.m.businessinsider.in/still-sad-about-liquor-ban-at-cyber-hub-indigo-delis-bbqpork-ribs-and-lemon-butter-calamari-will-make-you-forget-that/articleshow/57311109.cms">unintended victims</a>," it added.(Image source New Indian Express)

Supreme Court’s order on liquor ban near highways could be modified

<keyword id="1663690" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Harman-Sidhu">Harman Sidhu</keyword>, the man behind <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword>’s <keyword id="1789462" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ban-on-sale-of-liquor">ban on sale of liquor</keyword> within 500 meters of the highways in the country, might have tasted victory but apparently he is not really happy with it. 
 Despite the <keyword id="6356229" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="apex-court">Apex Court</keyword> delivering the judgement in favour of Sidhu, who is an activist from <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Made-in-Chandigarh-technology-to-bring-down-prices-of-insulinand-Hepatitis-B-vaccine/articleshow/54880247.cms">Chandigarh</a>, the victory came at a personal loss; at least that’s what Sidhu, who himself enjoys drinking, feels since the ban has resulted in a majority of <keyword id="4372867" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chandigarh-pubs">Chandigarh pubs</keyword>, <keyword id="26248" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="bars-and-restaurants">bars and restaurants</keyword> going dry. 
 
Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=highways&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">1 million people to lose job in India: Blame drunken driving for it</a> 
 
The reason, Sidhu says is a goof-up on the part of Chandigarh authorities. 
 
"Highways are supposed to be outside cities and to be used only for long drives," he explains. "But thanks to the Chandigarh authorities' goof-up, there are many highways within Chandigarh. This could well have been a world record of sorts. Now everybody, including me, will have to suffer," Sidhu told TNN. 
 
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By highways being within Chandigarh, he hints at the many thoroughfares that the city’s municipal corporation had declared as state highways in 2006. The reason, he says, was that the corporation didn’t have the resources to maintain these stretches, and declaring them highways would simply put the responsibilities on central government. 
 
Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Bihar-politics-ban-making-liquor-companies-suffer/articleshow/53767756.cms">Nitish Kumar wooed Carlsberg to set up a plant in Bihar, and then banned liquor in the state</a> 
 
However, just before the Supreme Court banned the sale of liquor around highways, the authorities changed the nomenclature of these roads to major district roads, with the Punjab and Haryana high court accepting the change. However, Sidhu himself has challenged the denotification in the Supreme Court; the case would be heard on April 17 now. 
 
Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/indias-longest-road-tunnel-to-see-the-light-of-day/articleshow/57773446.cms">India's longest road tunnel to see the light of day</a> 
 
However, this personal loss has not shaken Sidhu’s beliefs against people being allowed to drink and drive. 
 
(Image source: IndiaTimes)

Good karma or bad? Man behind liquor ban can’t find liquor nearby

The recent execution of the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/1-million-people-to-lose-job-inindia-blame-drunken-driving-for-it/articleshow/57971679.cms">Supreme Court’s judgement</a> on putting a ban on alcohol sales within 500 metres of national and state highways has been made effective since April 1. 
 However, at this point, the people who are at stake belong to the business of hospitality. In most cities across India, there are star hotels on the highways, strategically located for better connectivity and luxury of space. In the metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, <keyword id="6354321" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bengaluru">Bengaluru</keyword>, Chennai and other cities like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/1-million-people-to-lose-job-inindia-blame-drunken-driving-for-it/articleshow/57971679.cms">Chandigarh, Jaipur and Lucknow </a>invite a lot of tourists both domestic and foreign because of their hospitality infrastructure. Most hotels lined up on the highways have a bar to make sure the guests are taken care of. While the argument of whether alcohol is the a decent way to enjoyment is a different argument, but the fact that can’t be denied is alcohol helps the economy of the state to profit way better than other luxury, thanks to high excise duty. 
 
Even if that isn’t enough to back up the logic on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/1-million-people-to-lose-job-inindia-blame-drunken-driving-for-it/articleshow/57971679.cms">importance of alcohol</a>, what’s far more serious is loss of jobs. About one million people would be chucked out from their jobs. In a country where engineering graduates line up for Grade 4 rank jobs in the government, such is the scarcity of openings; getting fired from jobs for a court order is abominable. 
 
While the government should have enforced better vigilance and made stricter punishments to curb on drunken driving, this verdict is more like uprooting a whole tree because one branch of it was interfering with the electrical wires. 
 Serial entrepreneur and a renowned name in the hospitality industry, <keyword id="138484" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Priyank-Sukhija">Priyank Sukhija</keyword>, recently mentioned on a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/1-million-people-to-lose-job-inindia-blame-drunken-driving-for-it/articleshow/57971679.cms">Facebook post</a>, “Last month had to painfully say goodbye to 85 staff members because of the sealing of rooftops in CP which the <keyword id="6373991" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="NDMC">NDMC</keyword> has no consideration for ... ruining the most epic hub in the country ! This month it would be more than 100 after the 500 metre ban.” 
 Even Amitabh <keyword id="287016" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kant">Kant</keyword>, CEO of NITI Aayog is equally vocal about the crisis. In one of his recent tweets, Kant wrote,” TOURISM creates jobs. Why kill it? SC's highway liquor ban verdict may hit one million jobs.”

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