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Revamp in Excise Department

Special Correspondent

Thiruvananthapuram: The district-level administrative machinery of the Excise Department is being revived to make the functioning of the department more effective and to make its enforcement wing stronger to check offences such as the sale of spurious liquor.

Excise Minister P.K. Gurudasan said here on Saturday that under the revamped set-up, deputy commissioners of excise would be put in charge of districts in place of assistant excise commissioners. It was the district heads who supervised work such as the detection of violation of liquor laws and investigation. But because of administrative work such as revenue collection, licensing, confiscation of vehicles involved in cases and several other responsibilities, they found it difficult to give adequate attention to enforcement. It was in this context that the district administrative set-up was being revived.

The Minister stated that accordingly, 14 posts of assistant excise commissioner had been upgraded to those of deputy commissioners. Consequently, 14 each posts of circle inspector and inspector and seven each of assistant inspector, preventive officer and guard had been upgraded to the next corresponding level.

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