Jamshedpur MLA Saryu Roy raises illegal liquor shops and ownership rights issue in Assembly

Jamshedpur, Mar 17: Jamshedpur East MLA Saryu Roy today raised the issue of illegal liquor shops operational in Jamshedpur during the call attention motion of the state assembly and alleged that the shops are functional in violation of Excise Acts in the industrial city. 
In reply, cabinet minister Mithilesh Thakur said that after objection raised by the Jamshedpur East MLA the license of the three foreign liquor shops in Burmamines has not been renewed for the year 2021-22 and the process of cancellation of allotment of the three liquor shops in Burmamines is being cancelled and the shops would not operate from 2021–22. 
Saryu Roy linked it with ownership rights of urban slums (bastis) citing the government answer that if electricity bill and affidavit as ownership of liquor shops and giving permission of opening shops and stating that Jamshedpur is set up on Tata lease land then in the same law urban slums which are existing for so many decades should also be given ownership rights. The government said that liquor shops of Jamshedpur give an annual revenue of Rs 130 crore and hence closing of shops would incur revenue loss for the government. 
Saryu Roy then said that residents of basti can also pay land revenue on plots where they are staying which would be several times more than the revenue earned from liquor shops. 
The government said that a team has been constituted to collect information on liquor shops about ownership rights of liquor shops and the land details of the shops.