District administration allocated 17 out of 68 licences for the shops of country liquor, beer and Indian made foreign liquor through lottery system by late Friday evening. The lottery system was being used to allocate remaining licences to the applicants, said district excise officer TC Pant while talking to The Pioneer. A total of 29,267 applications including a considerable number of women had submitted applications for procuring these licences to the excise department.
The allocation began under the supervision of district magistrate BVRC Purushottam, ADM Jharna Kamthan, chief development officer Sushil Kumar and district excise officer TC Pant at 9 am in the Town Hall.
Purushottam had taken all the possible steps to maintain transparency while allocating liquor shop licences to the applicants. Moreover, to avoid untoward incidents, adequate police personnel were deployed in the campus of Town Hall and not everyone was allowed to enter the hall.
Pant said that the a total of 68 liquor shops including 35 IMFl, 31 Cl and two beer shops would be allotted to the applications through lottery system on Friday. The process is expected to continue till midnight.
According to department officials, 29,267 applications including 9,137 for Cl shops and 19,880 applications for IMFl shops and 250 for beer bars were received. The maximum and minimum applications for Cl shops were for Selaqui and Kulhal outlets respectively. For IMFl shops, the maximum applications were for Rani Pokhri whereas minimum applications were for Chakrata.
He further said that the department would allocate 20 CMl shops for Dehradun Tehsil, eight in Vikasnagar, three in Rishikesh whereas 24 IMFl shops in Dehradun, five in Vikasnagar and three in Rishikesh, one each in Chakrata, Kalsi and Tyuni.
The department had earned around Rs46.82 crore by selling these forms costing Rs16,000 each which was non-refundable. Around 14,000 applicants including 3,300 women had submitted their forms to the department in the year 2012-13 and earned around 20 crore in the form of registration fee from the applicants.
Moreover, the department had earned around Rs10 crore from 7,500 applicants in the year 2011-12 and Rs5.63 crore in the year 2010-11 from 4,331 applicants.
An applicant said that he had submitted 25 forms in different names to the department for procuring licenses and expressed hope to procure at least one licence.