lucknow one states loss is anothers gain upheavals in the delhi excise business leading to shortage of popular liquor brands in the national capital saw a jump in alcohol sales in upncr with noida greater noida ghaziabad and meerut emerged as highestgrossing districts for the excise department of upapart from cornering a 15 increased yearonyear revenue driven primarily due to an increased demand for indianmade foreign liquor imfl retailers in the liquor trade are confident about better business prospects during the upcoming fiscal year too with the financial year drawing to a close on march 31 the revenue generated with the sales of country liquor imfl and beer between april 1 2022 and january 31 2023 was analysed by senior officials of the up government recently advt during the 10month period the trade of the three varieties of liquor raked in rs 29318 crore for the state out of which country liquor sales grossed the highest amount rs 15165 crore followed by imfl rs 9675 crore and beer rs 4447 crore and to analyse the divisionwise performance and consumption pattern senior government officers examined the revenue generated by the 18 deputy excise commissioners of the state who have been deputed for supervising the liquor business across the 75 districts on an average each division shall have accounted for about rs 1630 crore for the state coffers the meerut division comprising meerut gautambuddhnagar baghpat bulandshahr ghaziabad and hapur districts grossed rs 3907 crore the highest amount in the state the lucknow division comprising lucknow sitapur lakhimpur kheri hardoi unnao and raebareli got rs 3285 crore and stood at the second spot during the previous financial year the lucknow division accounted for the highest revenues for the department but this year the dynamics have changed said a senior excise department officer he added that 16 of the overall imfl revenue for the state was clocked by the meerut region while lucknow grossed 115 revenue in terms of consumption volume of liquor sold and consumed in bulk litre too meerut division bagged the top spot by cornering 15 of the demand while lucknow achieved 112 district excise officer of gb nagar district rb singh said our revenues have gone up by 20 advt such growth has not been witnessed in the past similarly district excise officer of ghaziabad rakesh singh too added that revenue was up by almost 10 within the bordering district in another indication pointing towards stronger sentiments out of the 534 retail liquor shops that were put up for grabs for the next fiscal year in noida greater noida and other parts of gautambuddhnagar all have been taken up in the first phase of the lottery that took place february 28 in ghaziabad which is home to 528 shops only two are available after the first phase during the last fiscal 52 shops were left in gautambuddhnagar after the first phase while in ghaziabad 76 shops were available sk kaushik from sorkha in noida who renewed his liquor shop said