Chennai: Prohibition and excise minister K. Vignesh on Tuesday said the income derived from Tasmac sale is not important and any achievement in liquor sale should be considered shameful. He said murders have been reported on Deepavali days and it was 10 in the year 2024 and 6 in 2025, he said.
Addressing the media at the airport, he said the reports of achievements in the Tasmac sale should be downplayed since it is not an achievement. Increasing the sale of liquor every year should be considered as ‘shameful’, Vignesh said.
Most of the crimes occur due to the influence of liquor and the government would carry out a propaganda against liquor to check the habit. He said the government would take action to expand the deaddiction centres and set up such centres in all the 234 Assembly constituencies of Tamil Nadu.
Reacting to a question on the problems in the scanning of QR code at some of the Tasmac shops, Vignesh said action would be taken on those who committed the mistakes. The scheme of getting back empty liquor bottles at the Tasmac shops is being implemented successfully in Tamil Nadu with the recording of receiving 54 per cent of the bottles. The problems in the old system would be rectified and the scheme would be carried out successfully, the minister said.
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