Mumbai: For the first time, the Maharashtra government has introduced various licences over possessing, selling, buying and transporting liquors under the Right to Services Act. With the new amendment, permission for possessing, buying or selling foreign or country liquor will be given in two days.
Registering a club for a day and selling liquor will be cleared in seven days. Exporting liquor will take 60 days. The initiative has been taken after the Centre insisted on it for the ease of doing business.
The government has pushed the Right to Services Act in various departments so that citizens get time-bound services. In a new amendment, the permissions related to the excise department have also been brought under the Right to Services Act. As per the government notification, “a temporary club registration for a day will take seven days. Permission to provide facilities of Indian/foreign liquor in the temporary club will take two days. The export licence and import of foreign and Indian liquor will be given in 60 days. The permission for wine export will take 120 days”.
The permission to sell Indian-made foreign liquor and foreign liquor in a club will be done in 60 days. The permission for sale of beer and wine will take 60 days. “A licence for an individual to possess, sale, drink and transport Indian liquor and foreign liquor will take two days,” the notification said.
Reacting on the issue, a senior excise official said that the permission days are now more defined. "Earlier too, permissions were sought for various purposes but the days were not fixed. Now the government has brought the licences under the right to services act. We have reduced the days of the permission and committed to deliver it within the stipulated time period. It was instructed by the Centre to have the right to services act implemented in every department.
Time span to grant permissions
Permission for an individual to possess, sale, drink and transport Indian liquor and foreign liquor will be given in two days.
Temporary single day club licence will be given in two days
Liquor import/export permission will be given in 60 days.
No booze zones
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Gadchiroli
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Kharghar
