Election Expenditure Monitoring Excise Matters Election to the

Election Expenditure Monitoring Excise Matters Election to the House of People 2019

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters State Nodal Officer of Excise • One officer not below the rank of Commissioner of Excise- for flow of information etc. with the Commission and CEO of the State for effective implementation f Election Expenditure Monitoring by reporting of seizures made of illicit liquors by them during electioneering and also reporting of related statics in prescribed format. • Reporting: A. Annexure-B 14 -in every alternate day from the day of announcement of election. -separate Reports for IMFL, Beer or Country Liquor in Annexure-B 14 -to the CEO with a copy to ECI B. Annexure C 8 - on seizure and raids by Excise Deptt. up to 12 O’ clock on poll day. - on the day of Poll by 1. 00 P. M. - to the ECI with a copy to CEO

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters District Nodal Officer • • There shall be one District Nodal Officer of Excise for every district. He will compile all excise reports of the District ( Administrative District). Reports to be sent to State Nodal Officer Excise Administrative District-wise. All Excise activities like raids, inspections and other activities etc. will be conducted as usual i. e. as per excise district-wise. Reporting: • Annexure-B 14: District Level Nodal Officer of Excise will send separate reports for IMFl, Beer, Country Liquors in every alternate day to State Level Nodal Officer Excise with a copy to DEO, EO. • Annexure-C 8: DNO Excise will send a report on Poll day up to 12 O’ clock to SNO Excise with a copy to DEO.

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters Training Level To By Target Date State Level SNO Excise, DNO Excise CEO, WB 1 st week of February 2019 District Level Teams, Field Level Teams and officials DEO and DNO Excise 3 rd week of February 2019

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters • From the date of announcement of election, the production, off-take, stock limits of stockiest and retailers of IMFL / Beer / country liquor are to be monitored district wise • Opening and closing of liquor vending shops are to closely monitored • Intensive vigil over inter state movement of vehicles at RTO check-posts and border check-posts by special enforcement staff of Excise Deptt. • To conduct raids to seize illicit liquor • Inter state coordination of Excise Commissioners of the bordering states

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters (N 0. 76/Instructions/EEPS/2013/Vol. III dated 14. 11. 2013) List of IMFL shops are be made available to the DEOs where there had been suspicious increase in sale of IMFL • The DEOs are also aware that all the excise units of the districts, namely- Distilleries, Bottling Units, Liquor Warehouses have been brought under continuous surveillance of the officials concerned. • In important units, officers and armed forces are to be posted round -the-clock. • Available officials are to be given the special responsibility of monitoring liquor flow during the elections. • Some of the officials will have to be deployed on the border check post to prevent cross-border liquor movement during the elections.

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters Common complaints. A. Storage of cheaper brands of IMFL and country liquor in local slums, shanty towns and remote rural pockets for distribution prior to election. This storage is happening with help from the retail shops which are selling liquor in bulk to individuals, in contravention of State Excise Act and General and Special License Conditions. B. Stock registers are not being maintained in some of the shops. It has been reported that some shops, even though maintain the stock register, they do not maintain brand-wise stock register. This creates serious problems in monitoring the daily sales and makes physical stock verification of the shops almost impossible. C. Coupons are being issued by the candidates, which are convertible into liquor bottles at the shops. This is violation of conditions of State Excise Act/Rules, which prohibits sales in any form other than cash.

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters Monitoring of liquor sales: - • The district Collectors must ensure to get report of the shops where there has been significant increase in the sales. • Take the average sale for each of your liquor retail shop and compare daily sales figure of particular period of the last year. Wherever the sales figure exceed by 30% or more, it points to a possibility of bulk sale. These need to be investigated and action must be taken against the shop.

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters Ensuring maintenance of stock register: It has been found during surprise inspections that some of the shops are not maintaining the stock register at all, or are maintaining it without following the prescribed format. This is done with a view to hide bulk sale information and to make stock verification very cumbersome. District Collectors with the help of the District Excise Officer/Assistant Commissioner must ensure proper maintenance of brand-wise stock register in all shops

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters Use of tokens or coupons for sale of liquor: • Newspapers have been reporting that candidates are resorting to distribution of coupons/tokens, which can be exchanged for liquor bottles at the liquor shop. This as pointed out earlier is a violation of General License Conditions of State Excise Act. • Collectors are expected to take action against such shops.

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters Listing and close monitoring of sensitive liquor shops: - Classify the liquor shops in your district as sensitive based on the following criteria: A. Those shops which have liquor stock which is 50% or more than the liquor stock than previous year. Identification and listing of those shops. B. Shops, which are located in a slum or are located in close proximity of a slum. C. Shops located away from main roads and located in interior rural pockets. D. Shops which show more than 30% increase in sales on any day. These shops must be monitored and their brand-wise stock register checked on daily basis.

Election Expenditure Monitoring-Excise Matters Prevention of liquor storage for distribution in election: • Slum areas, shanty towns, camps (if any) in urban areas and remote or poorly accessible habitations in rural areas are potential storage points for illegal liquor. • District Collectors with the Excise Officials are expected to identify such locations and conduct frequent police patrolling and raids in such locations.

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