: Uttar Pradesh’s excise division’s annual income rose to ₹57,722.26 crore within the 2025-26 monetary 12 months, which the division claimed was the very best ever income era. The goal set for the 2025-26 fiscal was ₹63,000 crore.
The determine marks a development of 9.79%, a rise of ₹5,149.19 crore in comparison with the ₹52,573.07 crore income generated within the 2024-25 monetary 12 months. The goal for the 2026-27 monetary 12 months has been set at ₹71,278 crore with a particular concentrate on export coverage.
Addressing a press convention at his residence in Lucknow on Monday, state excise minister Nitin Agarwal stated the important thing catalyst for this success was the division’s aggressive push towards modernisation and transparency by the Built-in Excise Provide Chain Administration System (IESCMS).
“By making core capabilities on-line, the division has streamlined licence and allow issuance, established end-to-end monitoring of the liquor provide and enhanced general operational oversight,” he added.
“Extra measures to curb income leakage embrace digitisation of inner correspondence and personnel administration by way of the ‘Manav Sampada’ portal, introduction of excessive safety excise adhesive labels and QR-code primarily based monitoring to confirm authenticity and forestall duplication,” Agarwal stated.
The minister additionally attributed the division’s success to sensible enforcement, together with deploying automated quantity plate reader expertise at checkpoints to watch transport automobiles.
“Alongside income development, the division has intensified its crackdown on the illicit liquor commerce. Enforcement information for the 2025-26 monetary 12 months (as much as March 2026) reveals that authorities registered a complete of 1,09,077 circumstances, ensuing within the seizure of over 28.08 lakh litres of illicit liquor,” he stated.
“Moreover, 19,935 people concerned in unlawful enterprise had been arrested, with 3,721 despatched to jail and 143 automobiles used within the smuggling of illicit liquor had been impounded,” the minister added.
In reply to a question if the continuing battle in West Asia will affect liquor charges, he clarified that the liquor charges had been decided within the new coverage (2026-27) for one 12 months and won’t change because of the disaster there.
In the meantime, for the 2026-27 fiscal, the renewal and allotment of retail liquor and beer outlets have been performed by an e-lottery system. Within the first part of the allotment course of, particularly by the renewal mechanism, 25,613 liquor outlets had been efficiently renewed. Subsequently, 811 outlets had been allotted by the primary part of the lottery. The method for allotting the remaining 1,506 outlets is at present being carried out by way of an e-lottery.
UP capital Lucknow generated the very best ₹ 2,580.80 crore excise income adopted by Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida) with ₹2,418.50 crore, Ghaziabad ₹1889.26 crore, Kanpur Nagar ₹1,846.60 crore and Agra ₹1718.15 crore.
