Mock Internet auction held

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, JUNE 25. With a view to educating the prospective bidders on the auction of arrack and toddy licences through Internet, the Excise Department has conducted a mock auction at the Bharathidasan Government College for Women and the Town Hall here recently.

Mr. G. Ranganathan, Deputy Collector, Excise, said here today that the licences for arrack shops would be held on June 27 and 28 and for toddy shops on June 29.

There would be staggering of time in the Pondicherry and Karaikal regions. Auction would be held in the Pondicherry region for 56 arrack shops as licences for 26 shops had been renewed under the earlier system of renewal on payment of 15 per cent more than the kist amount by shopowners.

Licences for 53 Toddy shops had been renewed and auction would held be for 33 shops.

In the Karaikal region, licences for nine of 29 shops would be auctioned. Licences for six toddy shops would also be auctioned.

Booklets in Tamil containing the procedure to be adopted in bidding were also distributed.

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