New Delhi: You will soon be able to buy premium liquor at a discount at Delhi airport even while traveling on a domestic route.
Six liquor stores with various foreign brands and India tend to be open in three terminals in the next few days.
Excise Delhi government department also allows retail licenses to shift stores from areas that are not in accordance with the commercial markets in the same zone.
This step tends to benefit around 134 liquor stores, which cannot be opened after civilians refuses to allow them to operate in these fields.
With new excise policies that allow stores to captivate customers by offering gifts and discounts, shops in the domestic part of IGI Airport will be an alternative to duty-free shops at the International Arrival Terminal, which looks in a rush of brochures from abroad buying liquor at a low price.
According to the policy, 10 stores can be opened in domestic and international terminals.
Officials say six stores, each in the arrival and departure part of Terminal 1, 2 and 3, will operate in the first week of March.
Excise officials will carry out mandatory inspections before their launch in the next few days.
A large number of Delhies often traveled to neighboring districts Faridabad and Gurugram in Haryana to buy liquor, who were previously cheaper there.
This new policy allows shop owners to offer discounts at maximum retail prices and several stores in Delhi have offered discounts of up to 35% on several specific brands.
“This airport is one of the best places to sell premium and expensive liquor.
Because alcohol is now cheaper in Delhi after a discount, those who will go to Gurugram and Haryana will also buy liquor here,” said an official.
Excise policy has defined 32 zones for the distribution of a fair liquor in the entire city.
The policy also makes it mandatory for the opening of two indentations in each ward that falls in an inappropriate area.
The civil body, however, does not allow these stores to operate as the same Delhi plan to violate 2021.
Close to 30 sealed stores while 100-strangely presented a notification.
After the government appointed committee confirmed that the liquor stores operating in non-appropriate areas were not possible, the excise department allowed the license holder to shift it.
“We have been told that 67 city wards are 100% inappropriate area.
However, the license holder must switch to the commercial area of the authorities in the same zone,” said an official.
Of the 849 stores were allowed to come in Delhi under the new policy, 564 was opened.
“With an area problem that is not appropriate sorted, we hope that 134 stores will operate in the next few days, and the rest will also open,” said an official.