Vinay Partap Singh, Excise and Taxation Commissioner, UT Chandigarh stated that the Excise Department is continuing its drive against illegal smuggling of liquor to ensure integrity of supply chain of liquor and to enforce MCC guidelines in view of the General Election to Lok Sabha 2024. Dedicated Excise teams consisting of ETOs and ETIs formed to keep vigil and check liquor outlets and the wholesale traders, today inspected and checked the L1F and L-DF warehouses premises of various wholesale traders – M/s Anant Wines and M/s Singla Wines and various retail outlets in the city. During the course of the checking of physical stock lying at the premises/shops, stock registers were tallied with issued pass/permits. In case any discrepancy under the Excise Policy 2024-25, Excise Act 1914 and MCC guidelines will be detected, the Department will act swiftly taking stringent action against the perpetrators On the directions of the Excise and Taxation Commissioner, a meeting with the bottling plants of Chandigarh has been scheduled for Monday 8th April where various issues regarding enforcement, issuance of permits – imports and exports will be discussed including the effectively monitoring of the bottling plants 24X7 with the ex-servicemen deployed through PESCO. Department is also coordinating with the Indian Customs officers to formulate the SOPs for checking and movement of liquor from the Bonded Warehouse of the wholesalers operating in UT Chandigarh. Vinay Partap Singh stated that Department has further enhanced enforcement activities to ensure that no stone is left unturned to curb the menace of interstate smuggling of liquor to and from Chandigarh.