CHENNAI: TASMAC continued to be one of the major revenue earning departments during the financial year 2010-11. The revenue collection during this period is Rs 8,115.90 crore from excise and Rs 6,849.52 crore by way of sales tax, totalling Rs 14,965.42 crore. For the year 2009-10, the excise revenue earned was Rs 6,740.59 crore and the sales tax revenue was Rs 5,757.63 crore, totalling to Rs 12,498.22 crore.The sale of IMFS during the year 2010-11 stood at 4.8 crore cases while the sale of beer stood at 2.7 crore cases. During the previous year, the sale of IMFS and beer stood at 4.1 crore cases and 2.4 crore cases respectively.There are 6,690 TASMAC retail shops in Tamil Nadu. About 3,562 shops are located in urban areas and 3,128 in rural areas and 4,145 retail shops have bars. Due to the concerted drive by the Prohibition Enforcement Wing, no illicit liquor death had occurred last year and till August, this year.Prohibition policyMinister for Prohibition and Excise R Viswanathan on Wednesday said that the State government was pursuing a middle path on prohibition policy, considering the needs and aspirations of the people of the State.The prime objective of the prohibition policy is to guard the economically weaker sections from the evils of illicit liquor, which affects their health and ruin them socially and economically. With this objective in mind, the government has formulated a pragmatic policy, the minister said in a policy note for Prohibition and Excise Department tabled by him in the State Assembly.“In a situation where the neighbouring States have relaxed their prohibition policies, it is impracticable to implement the policy of total prohibition successfully in TN alone. In the present context, it is not appropriate either to adopt a policy of total prohibition or to relax the existing prohibition policy as this will lead to loss revenue to the State. Hence, this government has been pursuing middle course,” the minister observed.Viswanathan further said the prohibition policy of the State had been formulated keeping in view the revenue requirement of the State as well as the needs and aspirations of the people.
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