Gurugram – the Millennium City, on an average, consumes over four lakh beer cans and nearly 1.24 lakh bottles of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) and country liquor (CL) daily through authorized vends, according to Haryana government data.
And this figure does not include the liquor quota allotted to the armed forces personnel!
According to data compiled by the state Department of Excise & Taxation, Haryana has an annual quota of 53,108,852 proof liter for 2017-2018, which means 7,867,978 cases or 94,415,737 bottles.
Similarly, the state has sanctioned 89,656,412 proof liters of annual quota for countrymade liquor, which translates into 19,923,647 cases or 239,083,765 bottles.
Gurugram’s allotted annual quota of IMFL is 8,115,000 proof liters and 7,410,00 proof liter, respectively, for the West and East zones.
Similarly, CL sanctioned quota is 4,290,000 and 2,210,000 litres for the respective zones.
“Gurugram alone shares over 1.55 crore proof litre quota, the highest in Haryana, and if you add Faridabad’s share of 8,600,000 proof litre, these two districts adjoining national capital Delhi consume more than 46.6 percent IMFL in the state,” an official said, adding that “Gurugram and Faridabad contribute nearly half of the total revenue earned through excise duty fee in the state”.
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