In Uttar Pradesh, words such as ‘sarkari’ and ‘theka’ used to be a popular sight outside liquor shops. All those words are now forbidden.
A order to remove the words’sarkari ‘and’ thekas ‘from outside the shops selling liquor in the state was issued by authorities in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.
The officials of the Excise Department revealed that it was done in compliance with the top authorities or the
Today, outside of the liquor stores, the signboards can read beer shop or English wine shop or liquor shop.
Shops in UP are hiding the now-banned words with paint on their signboards following the Excise Department’s directive.
Earlier this week, in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Adityanath government made it mandatory to have a license to store more liquor than the prescribed limit at home.
In compliance with Uttar Pradesh’s revised excise policy, “individuals will have to obtain a license to purchase, transport or keep in private possession liquor in excess of the prescribed retail limit.”
Any person can purchase, transport, or possess only six liters of alcohol or store it in his/her home, in compliance with the new policy.
If someone wants to consume more liquor than the set limit, one has to obtain a license for the same from the Excise Department.
The Department will provide the license at an annual fee of Rs 12,000. Moreover, Rs 51,000 deposit money will have to be paid as security money under the stipulated conditions.
“The state government has set a revenue target of Rs 6,000 crore more than Rs 34,500 crore in the year 2021-22, against Rs 28,300 crore in the year 2020-21 of the Excise Department. As a result, a 7.5 per cent increase in annual license fees for country liquor, foreign liquor retail shops, and model shops for the year 2021-22. There has been no increase in the retail shop license fees of beer,” said additional chief secretary, excise, Sanjay Bhoosreddy.
He added, “To promote liquor production in the state under the new policy, the liquor produced in the state from the fruits produced in the state will be exempted from consideration duty for the next five years.”