Now liquor to be sold at grocery story in UK

DAINIK NATION BUREAU

Trivendra Singh Rawat led Uttarakhand government has decided to sell liquor through grocery shop. the decision was taken in cabinet meeting on Friday.

Cabinet has made amendments in the excise policy including increasing the license fee and reducing the turnover limit for departmental stores required for selling IMFL in the state.

Briefing to the media persons after cabinet meeting on Friday, Minister for Urban Development and government spokesperson Madan Kaushik said that the amendments were proposed by the Department of Excise in the existing excise policy and the Cabinet has given their approval.

“The department felt that the turnover limit fixed at Rs 5 crore for departmental stores in order to sell foreign liquor along with groceries and other utility articles was proving to be quite burdensome and costly. There was poor response to due to the high turnover fixed. So we have reduced the limit from Rs Five crore to Rs 50 lakh,” said Kaushik.

Cabinet also approved for increasing the license fee for liquor for departmental stores from the existing Rs three to Rs five lakh.

cabinet has also approved for reverting to the previous arrangement of allowing single liquor shops instead of a group of four shops to sell liquor within the radius of 20 km. Further, the Cabinet has also agreed to reduce the license fee to Three lakh from Rs five lakh for bars being run in hotels that have rooms less than 20.
Besides it, Cabinet also approved for allowing the students who had taken admission in MD/ MS courses of 2016-2017 session to be given their stipend. Around 17 students had taken admission on government seats, but a year later the authorities of Gurukul University, Haridwar, issued a notification saying that the course was now self-financed.
“The decision by the university blocked the stipend fee of the students. Now the Cabinet has directed the University to pay the stipend of the students of 2016-2017 batch,” Kaushik added.