PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Saturday asked the state government’s officials to destroy all the stock of seized liquors which are kept either at police stations or other places, latest by September 30. He also called for developing a system to ensure that all seized liquors are get destroyed within 15 days of the seizure.Chairing a high-level review meeting on prohibition at ‘Nek Samvad’ auditorium of the CM residence here, Nitish further asked the state’s DGP, principal secretary (prohibition and excise), additional DG (economic offence unit) and IG (prohibition) to hold a meeting on the matter of prohibition every month on a regular basis. “If such meeting is held every month on a regular basis, any new matter related to enforcement of prohibition could be taken up and resolved at the meeting,” he said.He said, illegal liquor was also being transported in the state through the route of rivers. Such reports are coming from the districts like Saran, Vaishali and Patna. “The SPs of these three districts should hold a joint meeting and take effective steps to put a check on smuggling of liquors through the river route,” CM said.Nitish said, the government had already set up some river police stations in the riverine areas. “The role and responsibility of river police stations should also be fixed in the checking illegal influx of liquor,” he said.Nitish said the maximum volumes of illegal liquor were being transported in Bihar from states like Haryana, Arunachal Pradesh and a few others. “Police and prohibition department officials should reach up to the source of such illegal liquor,” he said.CM also spoke to some DMs and SPs through video-conferencing to know about the measures being taken by the district officials to check illegal transportation and sale of liquor in dry Bihar.Bihar government enforced total prohibition in the state on April 5, 2016.

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