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Liquor shops on highways to be closed
West Godavari District Collector K Bhaskar has expressed his anger over the excise officials sanctioning licences to 120 liquor shops on national and State highways in the district. The Collector presided over the Road Safety Committee meeting held at Collectorate here on Saturday.
Eluru: West Godavari District Collector K Bhaskar has expressed his anger over the excise officials sanctioning licences to 120 liquor shops on national and State highways in the district. The Collector presided over the Road Safety Committee meeting held at Collectorate here on Saturday.
- WG Collector gives 15-day time to cancel licences of liquor shops on national, State highways
- Asks excise officials who will take responsibility for the loss of lives in road accidents
- Warns doctors of imprisonment if they stress for FIR for treating the injured in road accidents
- Superintendent of Police Bhaskar Bhushan says one in every four persons is in an inebriated condition during drunk drive checks
Speaking on the occasion, the Collector pointed out that 21 liquor shops were opened on the national highway and 99 shops on State highways. He regretted that due to drunk drive, so many people lost their lives on the national and State highways. He stated that the Government had strictly instructed not to allow any liquor shop on national and State highways.
Fuming at excise officials for sanctioning 120 licences, he asked them “who will take responsibility for the loss of lives in the accidents.” He directed the excise officials to cancel all the licences on national and State highways within 15 days. “If any shop opened on the highways, the excise officials should take responsibility,” he warned.
The Collector further stated that doctors should treat the injured persons of accidents without pressurising for First Information Reports (FIRs). If any doctor stressed for the FIR, they would be jailed, the Collector warned. He expressed dissatisfaction over the poor maintenance of the national highways in the district. No plantation was raised on the dividers on a national highway.
He directed the National Highways Authority officials to maintain the national highway properly without any pits or other hurdles and warned stringent action against the concerned officer if failed to do so. Superintendent of Police Bhaskar Bhushan said that recently the police department had conducted drunk driving checks and found one in every four persons in a drunken state.
He said driving licence would be cancelled if anyone found driving the vehicle under inebriated condition. Assistant Trainee Collector Nishanth Kumar, R&B Superintending Engineer Srimannarayana, District Medical and Health Officer S Vijayagowry, District Coordinator of Health Services Dr Shankar Rao, Transport Deputy Commissioner Kumar, Excise Superintendent Srinivasa Chowdary, Eluru Municipal Commissioner Yarra Sai Srikanth and others participated in the meeting.
