India, Oct. 19 -- The Delhi Excise Department has directed Government corporations to begin sending online delivery challans to ensure timely payments to liquor wholesalers, officials said on Saturday.
The four corporations were directed earlier by the excise department to accept the online-generated challan as proof of delivery and not to ask for a manual challan from wholesalers.
However, it was brought to the department's notice that the payment other than excise duty is not being timely paid to the wholesalers, until the challan signed by the receiver at vend is submitted to them as proof of delivery, a circular issued by the department stated. The manual signing of the challan is a time-consuming process against the Government's stat...