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Effect of Liquor ban in Maharashtra will be Rs 7,000 crore: Minister Chandrashekhar Bavankule
April 24, 2017
- The government of Maharashtra will lose Rs 7,000 crore in revenues following the recent Supreme Court (SC) order banning the sale of alcohol within 500 metres of national or state highways, Chandrashekhar Bavankule, Maharashtra Minister for Energy and State Excise, said on Thursday.
- Bavankule, in 2001 had said that the state decided that local bodies like municipal corporations, which had ring-roads on the national and state highways around them, could acquire these highway stretches passing through their jurisdiction.
- These roads would be denotified as state or national highways and will have to be maintained by these bodies.
- This denotification will ensure that liquor vendors can continue to do business there, he said.
