There has been a record collection in excise and GST and all previous records will be broken by the end of the financial year, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference here, he said there has been an increase of about 23 percent in excise and GST collection so far as compared to last year. Chautala said the Haryana government has taken several steps in its excise policy which have yielded outstanding results. Under this, it was decided to install POS machines at all liquor shops in the state by December 31, 2022. So far, POS systems have been installed at 55 percent of shops.
He said CCTV cameras have been installed in all the distilleries plants and all such units are being monitored through CCTV cameras by setting up a control room at the headquarters. During the excise year 2019-20, Rs. 6,361 crore excise revenue has been received, while in the year 2020-21 Rs. 6,790 crore, and in the year 2021-22, Rs. 7,936 crore was recovered while this year just in the beginning Rs. 5,736 crore has been collected, due to which it is expected to touch the benchmark of Rs. 9500 crore in the current excise year.
Regarding GST collection, he said that last year till November 14, 2021, Rs. 14,302 crore GST was collected, while this year till now Rs. 18,290 crore has been collected, which shows an increase of about 22.71 percent.