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| New draft excise policy will render us jobless: Wine Traders | | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 25: Expressing grave concern over the J&K government’s proposal on the draft excise policy for 2021-22, which proposes to allow allotment of licences to liquor vendors through the process of e-auction and by closing the already existing shops, several traders associated with the trade today visited BJP Headquarters here at Trikuta Nagar to highlight their apprehensions before the BJP leadership.
The wine traders said that they are associated with the trade in J&K for the last over 50 years and if the proposed policy is implemented then they are bound to lose their livelihood. “I have been connected with this trade for the last 22 years and when I have and several others have attained the age of more than 45 years the government is telling us to leave this trade.
We oppose this draft excise policy tooth and nail as it will render us unemployed. It would be difficult for us to meet both ends. We have families to look after.
How we will cope up in absence of any source of income,” said Manmohan Singh, one of the wine traders while speaking to Early Times outside BJP office.
“At the time of granting liquor licence to me and many others the government took an undertaking from us that we will not take up any government job and we abided by the condition so that we may not become a burden for the government as an unemployed youth. We demand that if the government wants to snatch our business then it has to come up with a rehabilitation policy for the affected traders,” he added.
He said that before switching over to new excise policy, the government should have taken a lenient view with regards to the existing license holders as the proposed e-auctioning will put at risk prospects of their survival and sustenance.
Singh said that when Article 370 was abrogated we all were delighted as it was hoped that new opportunities will emerge in the new set up but the current scenario is presenting a completely opposite picture where several wine traders are going to lose their trades.
He said that they have come to meet BJP leadership and make a fervent appeal to them to take up the matter with the concerned authorities. |
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