panaji in a move that is expected to significantly negate the impact of the supreme court ban on liquor outlets and bars along highways chief minister manohar parrikar on thursday directed the state excise department to remeasure the motorable distance of bars and liquor retail outlets situated near national and state highways parrikar has also suggested that the goa excise duty act be amended to ensure that henceforth distance from the national and state highways is measured through motorable roads the excise department had moved the file to remeasure the distance im yet to receive the file but once we do we will examine it and see if the act has to be amended as per the act the distance is measured radially the distance is calculated as per the radius from the highway excise commissioner menino dsouza said the goa liquor traders association welcomed the move to recalculate the distance and urged the state excise department to implement the order as soon as possible the supreme court had banned the sale of liquor within 500 metres of state and national highways forcing around 3200 outlets including bars hotels resorts and even supermarkets to take alcohol off their shelves the pwd department has simultaneously begun the process to denotify national highways which are passing through municipal towns which is expected to give further relief to liquor vendors and hoteliers in towns across the state the chief minister has taken a good decision to measure the distance based on approachable roads many bars and wine shops will get benefit in towns and in the next one or two months at least 1000 to 1250 shops and bars will get relief and will be able to restart operations said president of goa liquor traders association dattaprasad naik currently of the 3210 bar and restaurants liquor retailers and hotels only 1200 odd outlets selling alcohol have got relief with 2200 still shut but naik accepted that goa had been largely unaffected by the supreme court december 15 order and that only 18 of the total excise licence holders had shut operations if the government gives us relief through these two moves i think that at the end just 300400 shops will be affected naik said tnn published on jun 23 2017 at 0214 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 manohar parrikar goa goa excise duty act menino dsouza sc ban goa liquor traders association dattaprasad naik homenewsindustryremeasure motorable distance from highways to liquor