By Avinash Prabhakar New Delhi, Aug 17 : In spite of the extension for two months of the present excise policy 2021-22 the nation’s capital is currently experiencing a ‘Dry day similar to the several days.
There are a few stores that be operating at certain places in the city are seeing massive footfalls with long lines forming outside the shops.
The most luxurious areas of the city like South Extension, Safdarjung Enclave, Punjabi Bagh, Greater Kailash, CR Park, Kamla Nagar, Model Town, and some areas of East Delhi are facing huge shortages of liquor because the majority of stores are closed there.
The few stores that are operating that aren’t putting in bulk orders, since they must get rid of the stock by the last day of this month.
Delhi is scheduled to go back to the old excise policy on September 1st, when Delhi will be able to have 500 liquor stores that will be available to the city’s citizens.
A source Delhi government’s four corporations arefour corporations – Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIDC), Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation (DTTDC), Delhi State Civil Supplies Corporation (DSCSC) and Delhi Consumers Cooperative Wholesale Store (DCCWS) -were given the task of opening liquor stores throughout the city.
However, experts in the industry claimed that due to the withdrawal plan that is structured retailers aren’t eager to purchase stocks in the final couple of days until the new excise policy kicks in.
“We are worried about the supply of alcohol in the final couple of days of the transition period, and for some time after that.According to the structured withdrawal plan retailers are not allowed to replenish their stocks in the last 10 days as the stocks could be exhausted in the capital city of the nation,” CIABC Director Vinod Giri said to IANS.
Speaking about the excise law which will take effect on September 1, Giri said there is very little time left , and plenty of work must be done to put into place the previous policy again including the opening of stores wholesale depots pricing, clearing any remaining stocks, etc.
“There is also the matter of the reconciliation of taxes on stocks in two different systems.We have asked the government for a while to consider these issues and we are awaiting a response from them,” he told IANS.
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