Officials of Jharkhand Retail Liquor Vendor Association and liquor traders who came from different districts met Commissioner, Excise Amit Kumar and other senior officials of the department office on Monday. In the meeting, the liquor merchants made the Commissioner aware of the difficulties being faced in their business and requested to consider their demands sympathetically. The liquor traders have demanded that keeping in view the loss caused by Corona in the last two years, the license period to be extended till 2022-23. Their current license is expiring in March 2022. They stated that by increasing the annual revenue by 5 per cent, the liquor businesses should be given extension till 2022-23.
They also demanded to increase the dividend of liquor dealers from 42 to 45 per cent. Also, they said that if there is a lottery for the next financial year by the department, then in that situation group of 2-3 shops should be formed so that maximum number of people can participate in the lottery. In the event of a new lottery, to easily dispose of the remaining goods in the existing shops arrangements should be made so that liquor businesses can be saved from economic harm.
The traders also demanded that the monetary penalty should be reduced from 5 per cent to 0.5 per cent per day.
After listening to the demands, the Excise Commissioner assured all possible help in the interest of the liquor traders. In this meeting, Jharkhand Retail Liquor Dealers Association President Chandan Kumar, Secretary Nishant Singh, Treasurer Amit Kumar Taleja, Vice President Digvijay Singh, Deputy Secretary Shailesh Kumar, Legal-Advisor Chandrashekhar, Member Mukesh Kumar, Executive members Dharmendra Jaiswal, Suryanarayan Singh, Pawan Kumar Sharma, Abhay Kumar Singh, Tapan Kumar Mandal, Sanjay Kumar, Vijay Tiwari, Kumar Harsh, Subodh Kumar Singh, Rishidev Singh, Subir Kumar, Suresh Kumar Saw, Pratibha Sharan, Raghunath Vishwakarma, Dinesh Kumar Gupta, Ranjan Prasad, Ashok Kumar Sudhanshu, Ashok Kumar Gupta, Nagendra Sahu, Shashi Bhushan Singh, Shekhar Timbadia and traders from all districts of Jharkhand joined the meeting.