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Khotang. Halesi Tuwachung Municipality has started the promotion work of industrializing local alcohol (homemade liquor).
The municipality has started the promotion work by formulating a procedure to legally produce homemade liquor with the aim of encouraging local production and reducing the use of imported beverages.
Mayor Bimala Rai informed that the ‘Local Alcohol Industrialization Program’ has been launched with the aim of commercializing local alcohol, which has been produced and used since ancient times, and increasing the income of women in the city.
‘For the production of homemade liquor, cooperatives within the city, groups operating homestays, registered mothers’ groups, women’s groups or other Permission has been granted only to groups, domestic alcohol produced using local raw materials such as millet is also less harmful to health, she said, “The municipality has formulated and implemented a procedure for the production and use of domestic alcohol for the production, branding and sale and distribution of quality alcohol. The domestic alcohol promotion program is expected to increase the income of women in the city.”
The municipality has allocated a budget of one million rupees for the first phase by passing the procedure for the industrialization of alcohol production and use of alcohol produced.
The municipality has stated that a budget of one million rupees has been allocated in the first phase to provide a cash subsidy of up to 80 percent for the purchase of raw materials, utensils, ‘bottling’ and ‘supply’ of domestic alcohol. Among the ten local levels in the district, Halesi has become the first local government to start the systematic production and sale and distribution of Tuwachung liquor.
The municipality has introduced a promotion program to produce and sell and distribute homemade liquor with the aim of consuming it in the homestays operating around the tri-religious site Halesi.
In the procedure prepared by the municipality, producers will be allowed to sell the liquor they produce only in the homestays. The municipality has stated that the produced liquor will be sold and distributed only from the homestays.
The procedure states that it can be purchased from the homestay and used in cultural functions such as Koseli or weddings, Pasni. As mentioned in the procedure, only one person will not be granted a license to produce alcohol. The tribal women of the municipality, located in the western part of the district, have been raising household expenses by producing homemade liquor since ancient times.
The municipality’s program on the production and use of homemade liquor will benefit women who earn a living by producing homemade liquor, said Kamal Giri, the municipal spokesperson and ward chair of Ward No. 7 Mahadevsthan.
The tribal women, who have been facing legal problems in the production and sale and distribution of homemade liquor, are happy that the municipality has passed the working procedure and started the work of industrialization.
The tribal women of other local levels of the district are producing, selling and distributing homemade liquor. Other local levels have not yet started the work of creating and promoting procedures for them.
In Khotang, known as Kirat among the people, millet alcohol is also used in cultural functions (ancestor, wedding, death, Chebar, Pasni Gunyucholi, etc.). It is estimated that if alcohol produced from local raw material millet can be promoted, it will also help in increasing the economic income level of the district.
The president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Rajan Acharya, informed that imported alcohol worth more than 610 million rupees is consumed annually in the district, which has two municipalities and eight rural municipalities. Along with imported alcohol, other beverages have also been consumed in the same proportion.
Recently, locals living in various parts of the district have started to impose a ban on imported beverages on their own. Locals in some parts of the district have decided to impose a fine if they are found consuming imported beverages.
A decision has been made to ban imported beverages in Patheka, Diktel Rupakot, Majhuwagadhi Municipality-10. A fine of Rs 5,000 has been imposed on first-time violators, Rs 7,000 on second-time violators, and Rs 10,000 on third-time violators. The locals have started imposing the ban, saying that imported beverages have an adverse effect on human health and are wasteful.
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