Mangaluru: The increase in the number of Covid-19 has cost excise income officers because the sale of liquor has been worse than December 2020.Restrication during Christmas and in the celebration of new year and closure of liquor stores because MLC and other elections are caused by MLC and other sales elections to decline.
During Christmas 2020, 17,317 cases of liquor sold.
This fell to 14,771 cases in December 2021.
New year sales rose at 2021-2022, but only with 653 cases compared to 2020-2021.
The total case of liquor sold for this new year was 10,516.Bindushree P, Deputy Excise Department Commissioner in Dakshina Kannada, said that the sale of liquor remained poor after locking pandemics subsided.
“For the past two years, bad sales.
We hope sales to take but below our expectations.
This Christmas, sales are worse than the sales of Christmas and the last year are unsatisfactory.
The main reason is to increase Covid cases and restrictions.
There are also tourist flows Bad.
Sales are also affected because of the closure of liquor stores because of the election, “Bindushree said.
Bindushree added that there was not a lot of CL-5 licenses, a temporary license to present liquor at events, was released this time.
Excise Ministry officials, with the terms of anonymity, adding that coastal districts have adjacent business percentages.
Restrictions force people to stay away.
“We lost business because of that.
Keralites who came to town now bought liquor from the Karnataka border village.
Another reason for poor sales is the restrictions on events and closure of liquor stores at 10pm,” the official said.