Nitish Kumar's policy has been challenged by several petitioners including alcohol manufacturers.
The Nitish Kumar government wants advice. After being skewered over its prohibition policy, it wants people to suggest how best they can be banned from drinking.
On Tuesday, the government invited people to share their suggestions or innovative ideas on feedbackprohibition@gmail.com . A newspaper ad also advertised the mobile number of officers tasked with receiving calls and ideas.
Since prohibition was enforced in Bihar in April, this is the first time that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has called for people's participation in enforcing what is being described as his biggest political gamble.
While campaigning last year for a third term, Mr Kumar had promised women voters that he would help end their domestic troubles by turning Bihar into a dry state. After coming to power, he made good on that promise, dropping his original plan of a liquor ban in phases.
But the law he introduced in April was criticized as too stringent. Provisions like 10-year imprisonment and jail for the entire family - except children - if a liquor bottle was found were seen as ridiculous by many.
More than 16,000 people have been arrested for violating prohibition till now in the country's third most populous state.
The ruling party has also been deeply embarrassed when some of its party men were either caught drinking or stashing alcohol.
Opposition leader Sushil Modi seized the government's move, calling it a sign that Mr Kumar has conceded his blunder.
Mr Kumar's policy has been challenged by several petitioners including alcohol manufacturers.
Last month, the Supreme Court set aside a Patna High Court ruling that the prohibition policy is unconstitutional. Mr Kumar on Tuesday flew to Delhi to consult with lawyers on his legal fight.
In an
opinion piece written exclusively for ndtv.com in August, Mr Kumar defended his policy and pledged that unlike other states, Bihar's prohibition law would be neither "symbolic or partial."