Jharkhand government ropes in Swiggy, Zomato for home delivery of liquor.

For avoid unwanted crowding at liquor shops, Jharkhand government has roped in food start-ups like Swiggy and Zomato to deliver liquor at people’s doorsteps in some of the big cities like Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Bokaro.

The State Government on Monday announced to give permission to open retail liquor shops along with some other establishments related to hardware items, construction related items, books, 

Excise and Prohibition Secretary Vinay Kumar Chaoubey said that ore food delivery start-ups will also be roped in to provide more options to the people. Besides that, two types of arrangements have been made for the other 15 district headquarters also.

“Firstly, they can purchase liquor from the retail shops and secondly, for those who want to avoid long queues on liquor shops, e-token will be issued to them by logging on the site https://jhexcisetoken.nic.in through which they can get liquor from the shops in the given slot without standing in the queue,” said Chaubey.