Liquor shops and beer bar owners have complained of heavy losses due to lockdown and night curfews in the district. They say that their fixed expenditures are intact whereas there is no window left for earning.

Harish Chander, who is operating a beer bar, said licensed beer and hard liquor bars serving their customers inside their premises were compelled to lay off their 60 to 70 per cent staff. “A beer bar pays Rs 2 lakh annual license fee to the Excise Department which was reduced to Rs 1.5 lakh this time. Similarly, hard liquor bar pays an annual license fee of Rs 4 lakh which has been curtailed to Rs 3 lakh this year,” he said.

Unable to meet fixed expenditures, they have to source money from their savings. Other fixed expenditures include commercial power tariff, MC house tax, maintenance cost of bars and others, besides they have to retain some staff to maintain in-house installations and for their upkeep.

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