Women's organisation protests serving of liquor at IFFI

PANAJI: A Goa-based women’s organisation has demanded a ban on serving of liquor at the ongoing International Film Festival of India, saying it creates a wrong impression about the state all over the world.

"It is shameful that the Goa government is projecting the state as a land where people drink day-long even while working," prominent women organisation Bailancho Saad said.

While the organisation has warned of protests at the venue for allowing beer outlets at the venue, the IFFI organisers find nothing wrong in such stalls.

"I don't see any reason for protest. It is not that liquor is not sold in Goa. There are so many shops even in the close vicinity of the venue," Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) Chief Executive Officer Nandini Paliwal said.

She claimed that "required licences and permissions" were taken to set up the stalls.

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com