Jamshedpur, Nov. 17 -- In view of Assembly polls, the State Excise Department has embarked on a drive to curb on the sale of illicit liquor across East Singhbhum district. The department has set up two flying squads comprising six officials in each of them. The idea is to keep on targeting the places where the illicit country-made liquor is manufactured and sold.
"We want to ensure peaceful polls and have made elaborate arrangements for the same. We would be also focusing on illegal consumption of liquor while the traffic police personnel will be checking into traffic norms violations," said an official.
At Jamshedpur there are 98 Indian Make Foreign Liquor (IMFL) licensed shops, 51 country-made liqour shop and 15 spicy liquor shops.
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