Ranchi: The Government of Hemant Soren is preparing to take over the sale of liquor in the Jharkhand on the Chhattisgarh model lines but the move has an opposition from retail liquor traders citing how similar efforts by the BJP government previously caused major losses to the country.
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Need, a team from the State Excise Department returned from Chattisgarh after a field study of liquid policy there and submitted its report to the state government.
While the government still has to officially announce its actions in the future, the sources in the Excise Ministry said new policies would be announced and announced before the Cabinet did not receive a call but the source of the department said this step was to increase income.
“The idea behind the government’s movement to regulate the trade of liquor by taking over is to ensure a fair game and leakage plug in income,” the official trader said.
However, it was maintained that the government had to take lessons from previous experience when it suffered a big loss after taking over trading.
In 2017, the previous Raghuabar DAS government took over the trade of liquor and carried out it through the Corporation Beverage State Limited, but the results were disappointing.
In addition to fiscal losses, it also has to face opposition anger, including the powerful JMM, currently led by Hemant Soren.
As a result, the government resigned in 2019.
“Reveneu in 2020-2 was a little less but good even though Covid-19 induced Lockdown for months,” said Subodh Jaiswal, Secretary of Jharkhand Khudra Sharab Vikreta, liquor clothing), a retailer liquor .
He added that rather than blindly following the model of other countries and causing losses, the government must plug in his own apparatus to prevent leakage.