Should the legal drinking age be brought down in India?

No that would create a disaster. Indian teenagers has highly impressionable mind, they would do something which will be not good to society as a whole. And wait a minute, do you actually think the legal age for drinking really barricading the teenagers ? read more

Most of the states have legal drinking age around 25. And in my opinion, as a common assumption in our society is that: A person is considered fully grown up at the age of 18.Girls are assumed or say expected to be ready to marry at the age of 18 and a boy at the age of 22.So it signifies that our law considers these ages as fully grown up and ready to manage a family, So drinking age being 25, I dont understand it. read more

Delhi isn't the only state with 25 as the legal drinking age. Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra and Meghalaya also have 25 as the legal age limit. Other states have a more lenient 21 or 18. A few states like Gujarat have a complete ban on alcohol. read more

In India, each state has a different limit on the age for drinking alcohol. Some states have even banned alcohol consumption in the state for example, Gujarat. Most of the states have age limit set to 21 or 25. read more