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After Budget, movie tickets, beer and wine will become dearer in this state

Movie tickets, Beer, Wine Alcohol, Budget, Finance Minister, Kerala, Thomas Isaac, Business newsLiquor companies have petitioned the central and state governments to allow online sale as well as oncall purchase of alcohol, with lockdown hitting business hard and denying individuals the freedom of purchase. The demand for sale has been made for regions and areas that are out of Covid-19 hotbeds and are safe as far as movement of goods and people are concerned.

Thiruvananthapuram: Movie tickets and beer and wine prices are to be hiked and a ‘flood cess’ slapped in cash-strapped Kerala as the CPI(M)-led LDF government presented its first post-flood budget on Thursday in an effort to mobilise additional resources to rebuild the state.

 

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As the southern state faced a severe financial crunch, finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac presented the budgetary proposals for the 2019-20 fiscal, giving thrust to a massive rebuilding exercise.

 

Movie tickets, beer and wine to be dearer in this state after Budget:

 

He proposed 25 new projects to resurrect Kerala after the devastation caused by the deadliest flood of the century last August.

 

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“This is a budget for creating a new Kerala,” Isaac said stating that Rs 1,000 crore has been earmarked for the ‘Rebuild Kerala’ initiative in the plan.