While industrial growth has been dropping, the Indian liquor industry grew by 16 per cent in 2000-01 Several Indian brands figure in the 2000-01 tally of the 109 million-cases-a-year brands in the worldAndhra Pradesh plans to have 31,000 new liquor vends in the next two years The Maharashtra government is considering reducing sales tax on liquor to boost salesThe Union government may bring down duties on imported liquor to boost sales