Dehradun district administration allocated at least 30 out of 72 licenses for the shops of Country Made liquor (CMl), beer and Indian Made Foreign liquor (IMFl) through lottery system by Tuesday evening.
A total of 24,613 applicants, including a considerable number of women, had applied to the Excise department for procuring these licences between March 19 and 22, 2014, said district magistrate Dr BVRC Purushottam.
In the presence of applicants at Town Hall, the lottery began under the supervision of DM in the morning and continued till late evening while this report was being filed.
To avoid untoward incidents, adequate police personnel were deployed around the Town Hall and entry to hall was restricted.
Purushottam said that all possible steps were taken to maintain transparency while allocating liquor shop licenses to the applicants.
licenses for a total of 72 liquor shopsincluding 39 Indian Made Foreign liquor (IMFl) and 31 country-made liquor (CMl) and two beer shops will be allotted to the applications through lottery system on Tuesday.