
In Haryana, 7 officials held for taking bribe in 14 days. Haryana Governor: Develop Kurukshetra on lines of Varanasi. Death of mother-daughter duo in Kanpur Dehat: Why was no central probe team sent to UP: Mamata. Haryana panel to review communal harmony every quarter now. Hooda: Haryana must conduct fair probe into Bhiwani killings. On Saturday, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced that the Delhi government had decided to roll back the new excise policy and that from August 1 liquor will be sold only in government outlets, as was the case before November, when the new policy was implemented. In the eight months since, the excise department has fallen well short of its target, collecting revenue of just around Rs 1,993 crore, officials told The Indian Express.Īs per data shared by a Delhi government source, the excise department collected a revenue of Rs 600.63 crore between December 2021 and March 2022, Rs 528.29 crore in April and May, Rs 442.40 crore in June and Rs 421.82 crore in July. When it introduced its new liquor policy in November 2021, the Delhi government had looked to bring in Rs 10,000-crore revenue in one year.
Revenue target of Rs 10,000 cr, new liquor policy brought in Rs 2,000 crore in 8 months In 2020, July saw an average AQI of 83, only a little better than the average for the month this year. July this year and July of 2020 have seen the cleanest air in the past six years. The average AQI in July this year was 87, better than the 110 recorded in 2021. On Saturday, Delhi’s air was the cleanest it has been all year with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 58. (Express Photo by Abhinav Saha ) Delhi sees cleanest day of the year, air quality ‘satisfactory’ With the rainfall this month, the AQI in Delhi remained in the 'satisfactory' category for 24 out of 30 days of the month till Saturday.