Delhi allows home delivery of liquor; take-away of beer from breweries permitted

Delhiites can soon order home delivery of liquor through a mobile application or a website with the city government permitting such facility by issuing a notification which also allows takeaway of draught beer in bottles or growlers from the microbreweries in the national capitalThe rules notified on Monday permit the holders of the necessary licences to serve liquor in open spaces such as terraces the courtyards of clubs bars and restaurants where customers will have the choice of getting alcohol in bottlesHowever it will be the sole responsibility of such establishments to ensure that no customer takes the served bottles out of the licensed premisesThe move will boost the governments revenue at a time when Delhis economy is struggling in view of the Covid19induced lockdown that has been in place since April 19According to the notification the licensee will deliver liquor at the buyers residences only if the orders are received through an app or a web portalThe Confederation of Indian Alcoholic Beverage Companies CIABC has welcomed the governments move to allow home delivery of liquor in the national capitalThis has been our consistent demand for long Last month also we had requested the government to allow homedelivery of liquor in Delhi There are many states that have implemented this and there has been no adverse effect coming out of it CIABC director general Vinod Giri told PTIAlso ReadWrong interpretation of rule change on liquor policy Delhi govtThe notification issued by the Delhi finance department in the name of the Lieutenant Governor states that in hotels no liquor will be served by the licensee at any place other than the room in which the person ordering it resides for the time beingThe government also permitted the sale of medicated wine in the city which is usually prepared by using wine as a solvent to soak out the effective components of herbsThe licensee shall not sell any article covered by his licence except for medicinal purpose The licensee shall not sell to any person at any one time any article covered by his licence in greater quantity than nine litres or 12 quart bottles provided that sale in larger quantities may be made to persons holding a chemists licence and to government and charitable dispensaries the notification statedThe government also introduced a licence in the form of L37 for hotel management institutes to keep liquor for the purpose of trainingThe licence shall be issued to hotel management institutes or other teaching institutes recognised by the government The liquor shall be used for teaching purpose only The liquor shall be purchased from licensed retail vends only The limit of liquor shall be decided by the excise commissioner it saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever