guwahati assam has decided to open wine shops the shops will start functioning with affect from april 13 these shops were closed since march 24 due to 21 day nation wide lockdown due to covid19 pandemicon saturday meghalaya government announced that it has allowed wine shops and bonded warehouses in the state to sell liquor for seven hours a day from april 13 to 17in an official order assam government said the imfl indian made foreign liquor offcs off shops wholesale warehouse bottling plants distilleries and breweries will be opened in assam with effect from april 13 imfl offcs off shop shall remain open from 10 am to 5 pm on the permitted days advt a senior official in assams excise department who do not want to be named told et as meghalaya has announced its decision to open its liquor shops people from assam will rush to fetch wine from the neighbouring state which will again jeopardize the lockdownhe added in the absence of imfl several people were having country liquor even rice distributed for relief during lockdown by used by a section to produce country liquor the assam government order stated it approved the opening of imfl offcs country spirit off shops wholesale warehouses bottling plants distilleries and breweries wef 13042020 on the permitted days subject to compliance of some guidelinesthe order stated the licensee of imfl offcs off shops wholesale warehouses bottling plants distilleries and breweries shall be personally responsible for deploying their staff to ensure maintaining social distancing of at least 1one meter between customers staff cough etiquette and to strictly follow all directives issued by national health mission assam with reference to covid19 situation by bikash singh et bureau published on apr 12 2020 at 1104 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app liquor assam lockdown meghalaya shops guwahati homenewsassam allows opening of wine shops from monday