Delhi: Delhi government's big decision amid allegations, the old excise policy will remain in force for six months

Posted on 30th Jul 2022 12:28 pm by rohit kumar

After the order of the CBI inquiry by the Lieutenant Governor, the Delhi government, which is facing all the allegations, has taken a big decision. On Saturday, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told that the old excise policy will be implemented in Delhi from Monday. It will remain in force for six months.

 

 

The Delhi government has come on the back foot after recommending a CBI inquiry into the allegations of alleged corruption in the new excise policy. Manish Sisodia said that the new excise policy will be back. Till the new policy is prepared, the sale of liquor will be done under the old policy.

 

 

Announcing this, Sisodia said that we had implemented a new excise policy to check corruption. Earlier, the government used to get revenue of Rs 6000 crore from 850 liquor shops. But after the implementation of the new excise policy, our government would have got more than Rs 9000 crore revenue from the same number of shops.

 

What is in the new excise policy

 

The sale of liquor from the corporations was withdrawn and handed over to the private hands

 

The drinking age reduced from 25 to 21

 

Instructions to equip the shop with at least 500 square meters, CCTV

 

Only three days were allowed to be dry days i.e. shops were closed for 3 days in a year.

 

Permission was given to open pink booths so that women could consume alcohol

 

Restaurants and bars are allowed to buy liquor only from the liquor sales center

 

The liquor sales center was allowed to give discount on MRP

 

Bars, clubs, and restaurants were allowed to open shops till 3 pm

 

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