Q. With respect to the minimum legal drinking age, consider the following statements:

1. Sale of alcohol is prohibited in all North eastern states except Assam.
2. Minimum age for purchasing alcohol is 18 in all UTs except Lakshadweep.
3. Haryana has reduced the minimum legal age from 25 to 21.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: Only 3
Notes: The Haryana government has amended its Excise Act, lowering the legal drinking age from 25 to 21 years. In India, the minimum age for purchasing alcohol varies: 18 years in Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Sikkim, and Puducherry. 21 years in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. and 25 years (now 21) in Haryana, Meghalaya, Punjab, and Delhi. Alcohol sales are prohibited in Bihar, Gujarat, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Lakshadweep.