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Liquor consumption in Chhattisgarh is increasing at the rate of 30 percent every year, the state beverages corporation said Friday.
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Liquor consumption in Chhattisgarh is increasing at the rate of 30 percent every year, the state beverages corporation said Friday.
'The corporation sold liquor worth Rs.1.08 billion during the first four months of the 2008-09 fiscal (till July),' Sachitanand Upasaney, chairman of the corporation, told reporters.
'The sales were worth Rs.2.45 billion in 2007-08, Rs.1.85 billion in 2006-07, Rs.1.28 billion in 2005-06 and Rs.972.7 million in 2004-05,' he said.
The corporation was set up in September 2001 to undertake bottling, packaging, sale and distribution of alcoholic and other beverages, including foreign and country liquor, in the state.
Compared to 2006-07, spirit consumption went up 23.11 percent and malt consumption by 26.29 percent in fiscal 2007-08.
'Chhattisgarh is fast catching up with the country's bigger states in liquor consumption,' Upasaney said.
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