The Excise Department of Hazaribagh district got ` 4,02,32,000 as application fee for taking part in the auction process of wine shops for the fiscal year 2015-16.
Assistant Excise Commissioner Sunil Kumar Choudhary informed that the lottery will take place on March 9 in the meeting hall of Deputy Commissioner.
Choudhary informed that the late date for submitting the application for allotment of wine shops in the district was March 3 and hundreds of applicants have applied for it.
The Excise Department of Hazaribagh had sought applications for liquor shops of the district by separating the shops in different gropus.
There are 22 groups of shops and in each group, two to three shops are included.
On March 9, in the presence of Deputy Commissioner Mukesh Kumar, the process of lottery will be conducted and the winners will get the ownership of the shops for next financial year.
This year the application fee was increased between 10% to 25% which resulted in an increase of about 50 lakh to the revenue of the department.