3RD ROUND OF AUCTION FOR EXCISE RETAIL LIQUOR VENDS CONDUCTED

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The Haryana Excise and Taxation Department  on Saturday  conducted 3rd round of auction for excise retail liquor vends in 6 districts were conducted at- Gurugram (East), Karnal, Palwal, Rewari, Jind and Yamunanagar. 

Excise and Taxation Commissioner Sh Vinay Pratap Singh said that the bidders were given time from 9 AM on 30th May to 4 PM on 31st May to submit bids for auction of excise retail liquor vends in these 6 districts. The bids were opened by the committee chaired by Deputy Commissioners of concerned districts. 

He stated that the Department has received good response in the 3rd round of excise auctions for 5 districts as compared to the earlier round of auctions with 184 zones getting allotted out of 270 zones. He stated that wide participation in the auction process of the 184 zones shows a better response to the State's Excise Policy. The state has been able to secure the license fee of approximately Rs 2707 Crore from the auctioned zones of 5 districts, exhibiting a high increase from the license fee received in the same round in last excise policy year. 

He said that to realise appropriate revenue, the Department has decided to cancel the auction of 3 zones against which bids were received today and auction all zones afresh in Yamunanagar. The remaining 142 zones of these 6 districts will again be put for auction in the 1st week of June. Excise and Taxation Department has scheduled the next round of auctions for all districts on 3rd, 4th & 5th June, he added.