Finance and Excise Minister Niranjan Pujari conducted a review meeting on Wednesday with the district officials .
Besides district Collector K Sudarshan Chakraverthy, Superintendent of Police B Jugal Kishore , Commissioner Excise Anjan Kumar Manik, Additional Secretary Finance NK Routray, Assistant Commissioner Excise Ramchandra Palta were among others present in the meeting. In the meeting Pujari directed Excise Superintendent Rajendra Kumar Bhadra to conduct raids regularly to arrest the flow of illegal and spurious liquor trading cautioning the department against spurious liquor tragedy.
He also instructed the department to ensure cough syrups are not misused by youths.
He further directed the Drugs Inspector and Chief District Medical Officer to keep a tab on the consumption of cough syrups of the district.
Besides reviewing the excise-related cases including seizure of liquors and equipment and number of raids, he also instructed strictly to ensure the liquors are not smuggled and donot illegally flow to the district causing revenue loss.
Along with reviewing the excise cases of the district, Pujari stressed on more and more registration by the traders for GST and filing their returns . He asked the officials to extend all helps to the traders to remove fear and apprehensions on GST and urged them to take measures so that more and more traders and merchants suo motu get attracted towards the GST. The Minister had discussions with the officials of Excise as well as GST how to improve the mechanism and enhance revenue collection.