Uttarakhand: This year’s target of ‘3600’ crores from liquor Dhami government fulfilled, next year will earn 4000 crores?
CM Pushkar Singh Dhami’s government has accomplished its target of earning Rs 3600 crore from liquor this year. Today, in the cabinet meeting, it was increased by Rs 400 crore to Rs 4000 crore for the next financial year (2023-2024). For the development of sports, the cabinet also decided to take Rs. 3 as ‘cess’ from every bottle (this is also a tax) and to carry forward the existing Excise Policy. Excise Secretary Harichandra Semwal claimed that the new Excise Policy Compared to UP, Regular Brands will be costlier only around Rs 20. This will curb smuggling. Now it is being seen what steps the Chief Minister will take by taking those officers of the Excise Department, who are going to DC for the creamy chair of DEO. Deputy Commissioner) are forgoing the promotion. Some other officers are also in the direction of adopting this trend. There are tainted faces among them.
Excise Secretary Harichandra said, `Rs 3300 crores revenue has come so far in the current financial year. There are still 8-10 days left. The remaining Rs 300 crores are also set to come. Only after seeing the success in achieving the target The government has increased the new target by about 13 percent. With the new policy, the price of Regular Brands (Blenders Pride-Signature-Royal Stag-Royal Challenge-8 PM and other similar brands) will be lower than before. Especially UP Now the price of these brands will be higher by around Rs. 20 as compared to Rs. 150. Earlier this difference used to be up to Rs. 150. Smuggling of liquor from UP was encouraged by this.
It is a matter of concern that liquor will remain very expensive in Uttarakhand as compared to Haryana and Delhi-Punjab. The danger from this will not be high. The real challenge has been coming from UP itself through smuggling. It was also decided in the Cabinet that the shopkeepers who want If the shop remains with them, they will have to pay 15% surcharge on Desi and 10% on English Brands more than last time. The Liquor Policy of Pushkar is considered to be very practical and to curb the liquor mafia to a great extent.
Another challenge in front of Pushkar now is to tighten the officers of the Excise Department and stop the ongoing tough game. Any officer and employee lay down their lives for promotion. Here AC (Assistant Commissioner) is not ready to leave the creamy chair of DEO. He is also leaving the Class-1 post of DC (Deputy Commissioner). Tapan Pandey has forgoed promotion to the post of DC twice in Champawat. Prabhashankar Mishra, who became DEO in Haridwar, is the DC. Still he is coveting the lower post. It is believed that the chair of DEO is same as that of DM in IAS and SSP in IPS. This game is worth crores. It is understood that.
Because of this, either the officers of Excise Department are not ready to become DC instead of DEO. Or, due to the setting, even though it is DC, it is sitting on the chair of DEO of AC. They didn’t miss or hesitate to Forgo promotion. The rule says that field posting should not be given to Forgo people. They also have to be kept down in their batch in terms of seniority. Now 2 more posts of DC are getting vacant. For them DPC has to be done from AC. There is noise inside that people in line of DPC are ready to forgo again. This will kill the rights of those officers who are AC and only they are entitled to become DEO. CM Pushkar what in this matter He takes concrete steps, it will be a matter to be seen. He is busy cleaning the department. He is giving a lot of injuries and shocks to the liquor mafia system.
3 rupees will be taken from every bottle of liquor for the development of sports and to help the players. 38th National Games are to be held in the state. These are like National Olympics in a way. Despite getting financial help from the Government of India, the expenditure is huge. The Uttarakhand government has to pay the share from its own pocket. For this, the Chief Minister has decided to increase the cess to strengthen the government exchequer.
