Thane district residents can get liquor home delivery by placing an order via WhatsApp, message or even a phone call, excise officers said. However, liquor home delivery will be allowed only within the limits of various municipalities in Thane district, barring containment zones in these areas.
The Supreme Court Friday stayed the Madras High Court order which had asked the Tamil Nadu government to close state-run liquor vends on the ground that there was violation of guidelines meant to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
The home delivery of liquor in Maharashtra starts from 10 am from today, barring crowded districts like Mumbai, Nagpur, according to an order issued by the state excise department. The state government allowed home delivery of liquor to avoid crowding at shops amid the coronavirus-enforced lockdown. Mumbai and Mumbai suburban districts were operating liquor shops before closing on May 5 by the order of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
The home delivery of liquor in Maharashtra will start from 10 am on May 15, an order issued by the state excise department on Wednesday said. The state government had on Tuesday allowed home delivery of liquor to avoid crowding at shops amid the coronavirus-enforced lockdown. however, tipplers in Mumbai will have to wait.
In addition to e-token system, the Maharashtra government is also exploring the option of permitting home delivery of liquor as an option to ease overcrowding and ensure social distancing.
The signs appear ominous for all tipplers as the first move to restart sale of liquor after it was stopped on March 25, began with the state-owned Kerala State Beverages Corporation (Bevco) - the sole wholesaler of liquor and beer in the state, sought the help on how information technology can be used for sales matching all the health protocols.
Superstar Rajinikanth on Sunday warned the ruling AIADMK against reopening state-run liquor outlets in Tamil Nadu, saying if it was done, it should not harbour "dreams" of coming to power again, apparently in next year's Assembly elections.
Sitting on a liquor stockpile of around Rs 3,000 crore, restaurants and hotels across the country are asking state governments to allow them to sell the stock lying with them due to the coronavirus lockdown.
Alcohol stores, closed nationwide on March 25, were allowed to re-open this week, generating queues of hundreds outside outlets in some cities and leading to baton charges by police to enforce social distancing protocols.
Meghalaya has collected over Rs 6 crore as revenue from liquor sales after wine shops were allowed to open.
The e-token website launched by the Delhi government to avoid overcrowding and maintain social distancing while selling liquor in the state has crashed and has been showing an error sign ever since it was launched.
Karnataka sold liquor worth ₹165 crores on Day 4 of the re-opening of shops as the government eased the lockdown restrictions.
A day before reopening the state owned liquor outlets in the state, barring Chennai, the Tamil Nadu government hiked the excise duty by 15 per cent on IMFL resulting in a price hike of Rs 10-20 for the tipplers.
The Delhi government has announced 'special corona fee' on the sale of liquor, under which 70 per cent more will be charged on the purchase of liquor. On Monday, authorities in some parts of Delhi - including in Laxmi Nagar, were forced to shut down liquor shops after people defied social distancing norms, to an extent that the police had to resort to lathi-charge.
Initially, the West Bengal government guideline allowed shops to stay open from 10 AM till 6 PM, but later the timing was changed from 3 PM to 6 PM.
Various state governments had allowed wine and liquor shops to operate from 10 am to 6 pm starting today, as lockdown 3.0 came into effect. With this, the government had also laid down several guidelines, which outlined the need to maintain social distancing norms while standing in the queue to purchase liquor.
Maharashtra resumes sale of liquor: As per the new guidelines, liquor manufacturing units in rural and urban areas, and industrial townships, barring MMR and Pune region can restart working. Also, the shops that function should have 50 per cent labour capacity.
According to the new guidelines given out by the Uttar Pradesh government, liquor shops which are not located in shopping malls can be opened from 10 am to 7 pm with social distancing norms in place to ensure that not over five persons are there at a time.
New year eve liquor sales in Telangana netted an estimated Rs 350 crore for the State Beverages CorporationLimited, which supplies Indian Made Foreign Liquor to retail outlets and bars across the state, official sources said on Wednesday.
Barcoding of liquor bottles would be done by a third-party firm with a turnover of over Rs 150 crore as against the present practice wherein the distilleries themselves do the job. The barcoding system would be implemented from the stage of bottling in distilleries to retail sales.
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