Delhi govt gets ₹768 crore from liquor sale in September

The Delhi government has collected ₹768 crore excise revenue in 30 days from excise duty, VAT, license fees, etc. under the current excise regime (old excise regime) in which four Delhi government agencies are running 400 liquor stores across the city, said a senior official of the excise department.

The four government corporations together sold around 20.5 million bottles of liquor in 30 days which, excise department officials described, as normal sale figure of liquor bottles in the month of September. The old excise policy was implemented from September 1 after the Delhi government decided to set aside the new excise policy 2021-22 as lieutenant governor (LG) VK Saxena recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged irregularities in its implementation.

The excise department official said the ₹768 crore figure includes excise duty ( ₹460 crore), ₹140 crore (estimated) from VAT and revenue from license fee. “We are compiling the data because the sale will continue till the end of the day. The data compilation may take some days,” said the official.