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The Morning Standard
|February 03, 2025
A controversy is brewing in Kerala around a brewery unit proposed to come up in Palakkad district.
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It began with the Kerala government giving Oasis Commercial Private Limited a nod to establish grain-based distillation and brewery units worth ₹600 crore at Kanchikode in Palakkad. The plan is to build an ethanol plant, multi-feed distillation unit, Indian-made foreign liquor bottling unit, brewery, malt spirit plant, and brandy/winery plant. The project is estimated to involve an investment of ₹600 crore and provide direct employment to 650 people and indirect employment to 2,000 others. As is the case with every new initiative in Kerala, this project-a first of its kind in southern India has also become a contentious political issue, with the opposition raising red flags against the project.
This story is from the February 03, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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