Odisha to Have 25 New Excise Stations to Curb Illicit Liquor Menace

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Excise Department has proposed to set up 25 new excise stations in the state to check the menace of illegal liquor storage, supply and sale.

Added to it, these new excise units will also deal with excise-related issues like cross-border infiltration of illegal transport, storage, sale of liquor, illicit distillation, and other NDPS items.

In the letter to the Excise SP’s regarding the opening of these new excise station, the state excise commissioner has mentioned that three excise stations each will come up in Ganjam, Balasore and Berhampur. Two excise stations in Cuttack, Mayurbhanj and Nayagarh and one each in Jagatsinghpur Bhadrak, Jajpur, Bhubaneswar, Khordha, Puri, Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar and Rourkela.

The concerned excise superintendents have been directed to examine the feasibility for opening of new excise stations based on geographical size of existing excise station, inaccessibility of the far-flung areas, vulnerability to ID liquor distillation and supply from neighboring district/state, vaccum area existing within the present Excise Station area, number of cases detected, number of accused arrested, quantity of seizure of ID liquor, number of ID pockets busted during last financial years 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24.

In this connection, a virtual-meeting meeting will be held with excise superientdents on September 4.