lucknow the uttar pradesh government has incurred a loss of about rs 5000 crore following the supreme court order banning all liquor shops along national as well as state highways of the 8591 highway liquor shops affected by the supreme court order 2000 are yet to be relocated while 3000 shop owners have surrendered their liquor licences said up excise minister jai pratap singh we have incurred a loss of about rs 5000 crore in 201617 fiscal ending march 31 out of the target of realising rs 19000 crore the excise department could generate rs 14000 crore following the apex court order order the minister said the supreme court had last year ordered a ban on all liquor shops along national as well as state highways across the country and prohibited all signages indicating presence of liquor vends the supreme court again on march 31 reiterated its december 15 2016 order to shut down by april 1 establishments selling and serving liquor within 500 metres of national and state highways but relaxed the distance to 220 m for cities towns and municipal areas with a population of 20000 or less according to latest data compiled by the national crime records bureau ncrb accidents due to drunk driving have the highest fatality rate among all accidents ncrb data showed that some 42 per cent of drunk driving victims ended up dead in 2015 this was a far higher rate than that of accidents caused by over speeding and reckless driving highlighting his departments initiatives for going cashless singh said we are introducing a cashless system in liquor shops and asking them to install pointofsale pos machines though it will difficult in rural areas we are asking shops to switch over to cashless payments on media reports suggesting that the cashless system is being introduced to deter teenagers from purchasing liquor the minister said there is already a law which does not allow sale of liquor to minors about sale of liquor near religious places and schools he said an sc order in 2008 says no to liquor vending with a radius of 75 metre of a school or religious place but with increase in population density the number of schools and hospitals have increased leading to conflicts we have decided that no liquor shop will be relocated within 500 metre of religious places or hospitals in case of objection even residential colonies will come under the ambit at the moment it is not in a very formal shape but we are working on it the minister said about excise revenue expectations for 201718 the minister said his department has fixed a target of rs 20000 crore the minister said that yogi adityanath government will introduce its new excise policy from april 2018 and the government plans to break the syndicate system in liquor trade we are working on the new excise policy before finalising it he said the new excise policy may introduce a system of bar code on each