AMARAVATI: In what could cheer women and devout especially , the AP state cabinet on Monday decided to bar liquor traders/owners from naming their shops after Hindu gods. Chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu said an order to this effect will be issued on Tuesday.Senior officials said AP is the first state in the south to have taken such a step. Earlier, Maharashtra had come up with such a proposal and implemented it.The Cabinet discussed in detail the ongoing protests by various women groups on the new liquor policy. They are opposing the location of liquor shops in residential areas.Sources said the cabinet took the key decision in view of the recent Supreme Court judgement that bars and liquor shops should not be located close to the national/state highways. Policy directives will be issued on Tuesday by changing the nomenclature of the national highways and state highways running through the cities as urban roads and bypass roads will be called as major roads.Earlier, endowments minister P Manikyala Rao said it was not correct to name bars and liquor shops after gods and goddesses.