Highlights
- Uttar Pradesh government released new excise policy for the year 2022-23
- Under the new policy, the price of liquor will not increase in the state, license fee will increase
- Liquor supply made in UP only in glass bottles instead of tetra packs
The Government of Uttar Pradesh has released a new Excise Policy for the year 2022-23, which aims to provide revenue to the state government for development, employment to the unemployed, farmers, along with providing a market for their produce to large scale investors. is to attract. Under the new policy, the price of liquor will not increase in the state, but the license fee has been increased by seven and a half percent.
Additional Chief Secretary (Excise and Sugar Industry) of Uttar Pradesh Government, Sanjay Bhusa Reddy said on Saturday that the excise policy has been issued for the year 2022-23, whose objective is to provide revenue to the state government for development, employment to the unemployed. , providing farmers with a market for their produce and attracting large scale investors.
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Liquor will be available only in glass bottles
Regarding the policy, he said that under the new policy, the price of liquor will not increase in the state, but the license fee will be increased by seven and a half percent. The Additional Chief Secretary informed that in the new policy, along with increasing the revenue of the state, good quality liquor would be provided to the customers at reasonable rates. Reddy said that under the new policy, in the year 2022-23, the liquor made in Uttar Pradesh will be supplied only in glass bottles instead of tetra packs and if there is difficulty in supplying glass bottles, the supply in tetra packs will be allowed. Chief Secretary Excise.
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According to the official, in this policy, for the year 2022-23, an increase of seven and a half percent has been made on the basic license fee of country liquor shops for 2021-22. Country liquor, foreign liquor, beer and cannabis retail shops and model shops will be renewed for the year 2022-23 and the processing fee of application for renewal has been increased. According to him, the time of sale of country liquor, foreign liquor, beer retail shops, model shops and premium retail has been kept as before from 10 am to 10 pm.
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Initiative to make wine from paddy, maize and potato
The Additional Chief Secretary informed that till now the state has been a buyer of liquor and beer, but now it will be developed as a production state. He told that liquor will be made from the fruits of Uttar Pradesh and Dussehri of Lucknow will also be used better. He said that apart from this, beer will be made from wheat and barley and beer will be produced at three places including Barabanki, Mirzapur and initiative has been taken to make liquor from paddy, maize and potato in the state.
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