From January 1st to June 30th this year, the Telangana Excise department has caught 18,554 people for different crimes related to excise and booked them in 8,182 cases.
Revenue of ₹8,973 crore including VAT in the first quarter
The department has ramped-up raids and teamed up with other agencies – Police and Revenue Departments among others – to block loopholes that reduce government revenue; hence it made a good income of ₹8,973 crore including VAT during the first quarter of this financial year.
According to the Excise department outcome budget for 2024-25, special drive was conducted against illegal distillation of liquor, smuggling of alcohol across borders, transport & sale of ganja as well as drugs. In total there were detections on activities like illicit distillation which summed up to 14,652 cases and also led to arrests on matters related to it. During this period about 73,258 litres of illicit liquor have been mopped up besides destruction of roughly 45.73 lakh liters fragmented jaggery wash.
“Also,” he said “5,556 habitual offenders were bound over because we conducted effective raids that significantly reduced cultivation of ganja.” As far as infrastructure is concerned in the outcome budgeting document administrative approval was accorded for construction of new buildings for 97 excise stations while another 51 are under works. Of these 19 had been completed whereas 31 were at various stages towards completion.
Holographic Excise Adhesive Labels by Department of Holography were fixed on bottles containing liquors having track and trace system. This is the first time such a system has been put into place aimed at effectively preventing circulation of non duty paid liquor and inventory management purposes within its borders.
