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The government has asked the concerned departments to bring new policies soon. (File photo/News18)
As per the old excise policy there will be 5 dry days during these 6 months.
The Delhi government has extended the ‘old excise policy’ for six months and asked the officials to prepare a new excise policy soon. As per the old policy, during these 6 months there will be 5 dry days on Mahavir Jayanti, Good Friday, Buddha Purnima, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
After all the controversy surrounding the new excise policy, in connection with which Delhi’s former deputy CM and AAP leader Manish Sisodia is currently in jail, with government-run liquor shops opening in and out of the city, Delhi’s old excise system I was back. of private players from retail trade.
The return to the old excise policy also meant that the discounts offered by private players on liquor brands were discontinued for Delhi.
Sisodia was arrested last month after nearly eight hours of questioning on various aspects of the excise policy for 2021-22, which the probe agency says had irregularities in both its formulation and implementation, allegedly aimed at Had to benefit the people associated with you.
The CBI had found that the new excise policy increased the profit margin of liquor wholesalers from five per cent to 12 per cent, at the insistence of the ‘South Lobby’, a conglomerate of politicians and liquor barons who had allegedly swung the policy in his favour. ,
It is alleged that a group of ministers had the idea of capping the profit margin at five per cent, which was also the gist of the draft policy, said a PTI report. PTI quoted sources as saying that a report of the expert committee on excise policy was also completely changed and the constitution of the GoM was “calculated” by “hiding” an earlier note to the Council of Ministers in support of the expert committee it was done.
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