The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday announced to make use of GPS technology to keep a track on complete supply chain mechanism of licensed liquor, in order to prevent the sale and manufacturing of illicit liquor.
The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
"The state government would monitor the production and sale of liquor by assigning a unique barcode to every bottle. We will prevent the sale of illicit and smuggled liquor through this move. The entire system of supplying the raw material to production unit as well as its procurement by the sales vendor will be monitored by using GPS", Uttar Pradesh Minister Shrikant Sharma informed reporters.
( With inputs from ANI )