From prohibition to monopoly: tracing liquor policy and emergence of  TASMAC

M.G. Ramachandran’s government decided in 1983 to take over the wholesale trade in arrack and Indian Made Foreign Spirits from June 1, 1983. An ordinance to this effect was promulgated by the Governor. A public sector corporation, known as Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation, was formed for supply of arrack and IMFS to retailers

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