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Bevco outlets will close today at 7 pm on Monday for stock-taking purposes.
On Uthradam alone, Rs 124 crore worth of alcohol was sold.
According to the figures released by BEVCO, liquor worth Rs 701 crore was sold nine days until Uthradam, compared to Rs 715 crore last year.
BEVCO’s employee-friendly move comes as the government earned Rs 5,000 crore in tax revenue from liquor sales.
The minister was inaugurating a function organised to hand over the Milma grant to dairy groups and employees of the Malabar Region of the Kerala Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation at Chandranagar here on Saturday.
Earlier, Bevco had entrusted the task of collecting used plastic bottles of liquor, to Clean Kerala.
ConsumerFed's attempt to scout for a place for an outlet in the Achamthuruthi island was met with protests.
The state's Legal Metrology department traced a quantitative deficiency in one-litre bottles of Jawan in December 2023, following an inspection conducted in Thiruvalla.
Christmas Eve saw liquor worth Rs 70.73 crore flying off the shelves compared to Rs 69.55 crore last year.
In a five-line complaint written, a man said the liquor sold by Kerala's Bevco is hardly intoxicating compared with Goan liquor, though Kerala is selling alcoholic beverages at a much higher price.
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