Delhi lowers consuming age: What’s the age restrict to eat alcohol in different states

The Delhi authorities Monday accepted a brand new excise coverage, reducing the minimal age for consumption of alcohol to 21 years. Earlier, the authorized age of consuming in New Delhi was 25.
With the transfer, the nationwide capital joins nearly all of Indian states in having 21 because the authorized consuming age. While in some states, the age restrict is as little as 18, just a few have it on the higher restrict of 25. In some states, the consumption of alcohol is forbidden.
Apart from New Delhi, the opposite states and Union Territories the place the minimal age for consumption of alcohol is 25 are Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, and Maharashtra (mild beer allowed at age 21).
In Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar, Puducherry, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh and Mizoram (the place prohibition was lifted in 2015), the authorized age of consuming is eighteen years.
In Kerala, the authorized age of consuming is 23 years, raised from 21 in December 2017.
The states and Union Territories the place the consumption of alcohol is forbidden are Bihar, Gujarat, Manipur, Nagaland and Lakshadweep.
In most different states, the authorized age of consuming is 21.
The reducing of the consuming age in New Delhi is a part of the method of drafting a brand new coverage for the sale of liquor within the metropolis. Delhi authorities ministers offered suggestions to the state Cabinet on Monday, which had been accepted.
The suggestions embody reducing the age of consumption of liquor to 21 from 25; barring the entry of these underneath the age of 21, and with out “supervision”, in locations that serve liquor; and shutting all government-run vends and giving them to personal gamers as a substitute.