BHOPAL : The proposed Excise Policy for the year 2016-17 has a provision that license to keep 100 liquor bottles at home will be issued on payment of annual fee of Rs 10,000.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has approved the proposal of Excise Department for keeping 100 liquor bottles at home for an annual license fee of Rs 10,000. The liquor bottles kept at home should be worth Rs 1000 at least and the person keeping liquor at home must be an income-tax payee. The license will be given for a maximum period of three years.
In the presentation given before CM, consensus was arrived at on not selling liquor in Ujjain during ‘Shahi Snan’ days in Ujjain.
Approval on proposal to raise the difference between minimum selling price of foreign liquor and maximum selling price from 10 per cent to 15 per cent, was also given.
There is provision of transfer of liquor shop and the Excise department would issue permission of such transfer by charging 2 per cent of licence fee.
Licences to be renewed with 15% hike
In the Excise Policy, the renewal of licences of liquor shops would be done with a 15 per cent hike in the fee paid in 2015-16. It is proposed to make 60 per cent of annual fee as the basic license fee. The districts where contractors have abandoned shops, tenders would be floated this year too
Govt not to move SC against new liquor factory
The state government would not move Supreme Court (SC) against the decision of Gwalior High Court in which it had ruled against the state government for not giving permission of opening of new liquor factory. High Court, Gwalior had ruled in favour of owners of liquor factory owners. Although Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan had insisted on not opening of new liquor factory in the state, but the government is not moving the Supreme Court. With the state government not moving SC, an avenue to open new liquor factory in the state would open.
