indore already struggling to allot its all the liquor shops indore excise department has now started facing resentment by locals on allowing opening the outlets at new locationstill march 31 a total 16 groups of liquor shops were left from allotment against the same we had received bids on 15 groups but as the same were below the base price the proposals were sent to the state government for its approval indore assistant excise commissioner raj narayan soni said adding that bids on 14 groups of liquor shops have been accepted while tenders for remaining two groups of six shops have been invited on saturdayas the previous contract of these two groups expired on thursday the excise department took over operation of the counters by deploying its staff till these shops would be auctioned outmeanwhile some of the contractors have initiated the process to relocate their licensee liquor shops at new locations due to different reasons but to only face resentment of the residents and local public representatives at some of the places including in palda scheme140 scheme114 reti mandi road in rajendra nagar and agra village of depalpur tehsilon friday protestors gathered in palda and reti mandi road and registered their agitation over shifting of the liquor shops there the protest over shifting of liquor shops at scheme114 square and agra village has been pacified with talks between the contractors and the agitators while the contractor has dropped his proposal to shift his liquor shop at the new location on reti mandi road soni saidhe added that there is some resentment over shifting of liquor shops in palda and in scheme140 which the department is examining at both the locations there is a commercial market and thus no one should have any objection to it we are however examining all the aspects along with talking with the protestors to help find an appropriate solution the senior official said tnn