Karnataka: Tipplers helped state sail through 2020-21 by surpassing excise revenue target
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Last Updated: Apr 01, 2021, 05:12 PM IST
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Data shared by the State excise department showed that the targeted revenue of state excise in 2020-21 was Rs 22,700 crore, which was 1,116.04 crore above the excise revenue collection during 2019-20.
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Amid the gloomy economic scenario throughout the lockdown in the previous fiscal, tipplers of Karnataka assiduously held the fort on the revenue front and helped the state surpass the targeted excise revenue. Data shared by the State excise department showed that the targeted revenue of state excise in 2020-21 was Rs 22,700 crore, which was 1,116.04 crore above the excise revenue collection during 2019-20.
Tejashwi Yadav
PATNA: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday launched a frontal attack on the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar, alleging the involvement of a BJP minister in illicit liquor trade and claiming that the chief minister appeared weak and helpless and, therefore, unable to act and stem the rot.
The leader of the opposition, who had on the previous day raised inside the assembly the issue of seizure of illicit liquor from a school building situated on a property that belonged to minister for land reforms and revenue Ram Surat Rai, went for the jugular and charged that he suspected direct involvement of the cabinet member.
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