bhopal madhya pradesh seems to be slowly but surely inching towards prohibition and the confirmation comes from none other than the states chief minister shivraj singh chouhanspeaking at a narmada yatra rally in narsinghpur late sunday night the cm said the government is moving towards establishing a liquorfree state in a phased manner chouhan said at the river conservation rally some 230km east of bhopal alcohol prohibition will be implemented in the entire state by closing all liquor shops in a phased manner it was at one such narmada event in january that the cm had announced a ban on liquor shops within 5km of the narmada banks followed by directives to liquor shops to keep records of regular customers since then there has been a string of protests by women against liquor shops in several parts of the statetaking cue from the cms statement and the liquor protests across mp state finance and commercial tax minister jayant malaiya said that if people are ready to quit alcohol the government is ready to impose total prohibitionwe want the public to take the initiative against alcohol abuse also to discourage drinking the government will spend rs 400 crore this fiscal on creating awareness against liquor malaiya told toi adding that the government will encourage people to spend money on good education and milk insteadthe governments initiatives began with the shifting of 65 liquor shops across the banks of narmada followed a ban on liquor shops near residential areas schools colleges and religious places said malaiya the antiliquor buildup has run parallel with the cleansing theme of the narmada yatra which ends on may 11