The U.P government order related to the allocation of liquor shops, is like a piece of paper for the liquor traders . The reason for this is, on paper even if the syndicate system is being claimed to be demolished , but the truth remains that syndicate is still dominant in Purvanchal. After the implementation of this government order, this is an area where the number of unemployed people running one or two shops of liquor is quite small. Prior to breaking of syndicate practice, it was envisaged that it would benefit the unemployed and they would get one or two shops from the lottery system and will be their source of livelihood. The number of people running one or two shops in the previous government was quite high. On the contrary, this number has decreased considerably in this government, and the number of people running more than a dozen shops has increased. This way the liquor business has become a puppet in few hands.
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What happened in this government that the liquor business has become a puppet of few hands, its a ponderable question. In the previous governments, at the district level slips were taken out by the children in front of all the applicants and whichever slip was named, it was allocated the concerned shop. This system was abolished in this government. According to the new arrangement of this government, the applicants gather at one place at the district headquarters and the name of the allottee with the name of the shop is declared from the state headquarters, this is certainly not the transparency people were looking for. It is also said that more and more shops are being allotted to the people who are close to the power centers in the government, and the game of corruption is going on openly.
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Contractors running one or two shops of liquor are incurring losses. This is because the big businessmen in order to demoralize these small businessmen start selling liquor on low prices from their shop and with such tactics, they rob their customers. Plus the cost of running a single shop is more because for a shop, it also has to keep at least three employees. Two employees are required for the duty for day and night shift, and one employee is in charge of duty with the other work as well as doing duty if the staff is absent. In contrast, those who run many shops keep two employees for every store and keep two additional employees, who look at the arrangements of all the shops, and at any shop if the employee is absent they take the charge of the duty. In this way, the cost of running for big traders is less. In such a situation, the small traders sell their shop to the big traders in throw away prices. In this way, big traders increase their tally of shops.