Tamil Diplomat

Jaffna peninsula has only 448 Schools, 62 Libraries, 45 hospitals, but 217 liquor shops

While pointing out that there are only 448 school as against 217 liquor shops in the Jaffna Peninsula, Educationalist expressed their concern over this situation.

They said that this is not a healthy situation and while the increase of the liquor shops should be prevented and action should be taken to reduce the number shops already operating.

They also pointed out there are 62 libraries and 45 hospitals including the Jaffna Teaching Hospital for the use of people. 47 wine stores, 22 restaurants and 148 Toddy taverns are included in the total 217. Apart from these, there are 6 hotels ( like ‘Thal Sevana’) that are run by the army, which do not come under the purview of the Excise Department. Further, illegal liquor sales are made from homes secretly, they said.

This is not a healthy situation to the society. This is not a healthy situation to the School Students. This had to be viewed as an activity aimed at distracting the student community, they further said.