Both, the foreign liquor shop and country made liquor shop are functioning jointly at two places in Indore that is Bijalpur shop besides Indore Rau road and Rau shop at Rau square road.
With this, heavy crowd is witnessed round the clock and in the evening and night the crowd increases many folds. Due to the location of both the shops in one premises the customers of both the foreign liquor and country made liquor shop are coming all together.
As the Government has banned the sitting and drinking facility of ahata and shop bar in the country made and foreign liquor shops due to ongoing corona pandemic and only take away facility is available at the liquor shops but the customers coming to purchase the liquor are sitting Infront of the shops in large crowd and they are not following the guidelines as they are not wearing mask and no social distance is also maintained by the customers and interestingly the salesman of the shops are also not wearing mask.
Instead of stopping the customers for public drinking the shopkeepers are providing facility for drinking infront of the shop by giving the customers plastic glasses and water pouches from the window of the ahata and shop bar which are closed. Both these shops are along the Indore Mhow highway and public drinking surprises people passing on the road.
ADEO in charge Balkrishna Verma told The Pioneer that we have ordered the shopkeepers to follow the mask and social distance and take away and for this every shopkeeper has to appoint the private security guards who should check the customers. If the customers are not wearing mask not following social distancing and drinking Infront of the shops we will take action on the shopkeeper.