Wines shops to open from Monday in Meghalaya

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaApril 11, 2020

The State Government has approved the opening of wine shops and Bonded Warehouses w.e.f. 13/4/2020 to 17/4/2020 from 9.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. on the permitted days.

This was informed by the Commissioner of Excise to all the Deputy Commissioners of the eleven districts in Meghalaya.

According to the letter, the wine shops should be made personally responsible by deploying their staff to ensure maintaining Social Distancing of at least 1 (one) metre between customers, cough etiquette and to strictly follow all directives issued by Health & Family Welfare Department, Govt. of Meghalaya with reference to COViD-19 situation.

0nly one person per household is allowed to visit the wine shop for purchase and the movement from one locality/village to another locality/village shall be prohibited.

The wine shops may work with bare minimum staff and provide hand sanitizers to customers and staff while handling the bottles and cash.

To strictly avoid overcrowding, staff of a particular wine shop may direct the customers to other nearby wine shops within the same locality/village.

The wine shops will extend full cooperation to District Administration, Police, Excise etc.

The Deputy Commissioners (Excise) will deploy Excise officials to monitor the compliance of directives issued by Health & Family Welfare Department, Govt. of Meghalaya with reference to COVID-19 situation.

The Deputy Commissioners (DCs) of respective districts may issue detailed instructions accordingly. DCs may also decide the areas, where wine shops are to be kept closed, keeping in mind the transmission risk of COVID-19.

Also, home delivery of liquor would be allowed in the areas without wine shops for which modalities could be worked out by the respective Deputy Commissioners. As such, the wine shops/delivery partners who are interested to undertake home delivery of liquor must register themselves with the respective DCS, and get the approval.