A total of 3,922 liquor shops are operating in the State now and all IMFl Off outlets have been asked to display rate charts and give a cash memo against each sale, informed Excise Minister Dr Damodar Rout in the State Assembly in response to a question of BJP MlA Rabinarayan Naik on Wednesday.
The Minister said there is no ‘wine centre’ elsewhere in the State for liqour sale. There are 1,030 IMFl Off shops, 463 IMFl On shops, 105 beer parlour On, 32 military canteens, 17 club On, 201 country spirit, 531 outstills, 1360 outstill branches, 106 bhang shops, 69 Tari and eight Pachwai shops operating in the State.
The State has earned excise revenue of Rs1,780.29 crore in 2013-14, Rs2,038.79 crore in 2014-15 and Rs2,568.68 crore in 2015-16. Similarly, a total of excise revenue of Rs1,725.66 crore has been collected during the current year by November 2016, the Minister said.
Rout said the IMFl Off shops have been asked to fix MRP rate charts at their counters as per the Excise Policy. The liquor sellers are bound to give cash memo to customers against sales on demand. There is also a provision in the policy that a fine of Rs15,000 would be collected from liquor shop owners violating these norms. During the current year, raids had bee
n conducted on 15 IMFl Off shops and three country spirit shops, and a total fine of Rs2.15 lakh collected from them for selling liquors at higher prices than the MRP.