To allocate the licences for the shop of country-made liquor (CMl), Beer and Indian Made Foreign liquor (IMFl), the lottery began in the presence of the applicants at Town Hall on Tuesday. A total of 31 out of 72 liquor shops were allocated by 4 pm on Wednesday. The district officers at the Town Hall were witnessed busy in allocating liquor licences and it continued till late evening.
The Town Hall was full of applicants and some applicants had taken lottery in the name of their female family members, considering them lucky. The administration had made elaborate security arrangements in the Town Hall.
However, the exercise department has adopted lottery system to allocate licenses for liquor shops- 31 CMl, 39 IMFl and two Beers. To secure liquor shops, a total of 17, 544 applicants had applied in the Dehradun district excise department. A total of 15,227 applications were received for CMl shops while 2,272 for IMFl shops and 45 applications for two Beer shops. To avoid untoward incidents, adequate police personnel were deployed around Town Hall. The district officers had taken all possible steps to maintain transparency while allocating liquor shop licences for a total of 72 liquor shops, including 39 IMFl and 31 CMl and two Beer shops to the applicants.