Last year’s numbers

Last year the UT collected Rs 127 crore by allotting liquor licences for 217 vends,which was more than double the licence fee of Rs 60.10 crore earned during 2011-12. The liquor vend at Sector 52 on the Vikas Marg (opposite the Sector-43 ISBT) fetched the highest licence fee of Rs 2.75 crore,followed by the vend at Behlana village (on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway near the airport traffic light point) which fetched Rs 2.51 crore.