April 1st – the day that was originally meant to be celebrated as fool’s day – is now being dreaded by half the nation primarily because of the several bans that will come in effect after this day. It won’t be wrong to say that even Friday the 13th will now look less scary than April 1st. We already told you about the blanket ban that the Supreme Court had ordered on the sale of liquor in and around national and state highways, now chances are that in Haryana, alcohol might cost 20% more. The Excise Policy for the year 2017-18 was recently released by Captain Abhimanyu, the excise and taxation minister and the finance minister of Haryana. According to that policy the prices of all country made liquor brands, Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and foreign liquor, will go up.

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Further, the residents of Gurugram and Faridabad will have to pay more for drinking in pubs and bars and the license fee too has been increased. This policy is being deemed as ‘vendor friendly’ and offers several choices to them like selling any kind of brand from the same premises – country made alcohol or IMFL or both. So while the buyers will have to pay a hefty amount to buy drinks, the vendors will really benefit from it.

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In fact, thanks to the ban on sale of liquor, it seems that one city is going to completely dry up in summer and that city is none other than Chandigarh. The reason being that earlier the road categorization was done in such a manner that today all the major roads are state highways along with one national highway that passes through the city, making the entire city fall under the 500 meter radar. What’s more, Captain Abhimanyu also spoke about Supreme Court’s liquor ban and said that the bars and restaurants along the highways won’t be affected by the Court’s order as per the advice of the attorney general and advocate general, but only time will tell where exactly we stand when it comes to buying liquor after April 1st.

Source: The Times Of India