Track And Trace Mechanism, GPS Chips To Be Installed In Vehicle Carrying Liquor In This State

Chandigarh: To deal with the cases pertaining to the movement of liquor across Haryana , the Special Enquiry Team (SET) has made several recommendations to the state excise and police department officials of the Haryana to install new track-and-trace mechanism to monitor entire movement of vehicles carrying liquor across the state, also recommended to installation the GPS chips in the vehicles carrying liquor.

Excise department should devise a system for tracking and tracing the vehicles carrying liquor destined for other states/ UT through Haryana to ensure consignments meant for sale in other states are not illegally offloaded in the state. Besides being an illegal activity, punishable on being detected, it also impacts the excise revenue of the state as instead of legal quota, illegal quota also gets available to consumers through such smugglers,’ the SET report said.

To monitor manufacturing of liquor, SET has recommended that ‘Electronic tamper-proof flow meters of high grade should be installed at all taps of storage tanks in manufactories. Excise department should explore possibility of installing GPS tracking system on vehicles carrying liquor consignments from manufactories/ wholesalers. Manufactories may be thoroughly audited to rule out any possibility of pilferage and possible leakage of revenue’.

The SET has also highlighted several loopholes in the training and functioning of excise officials. ‘Training of excise officials for detection of illegal liquor, its investigation and the court process should be periodically organised by excise department’.