Brief Summary

This project of manufacturing and sale by retail of country liquor (spirit) under Out Still system is proposed by Sri Rajesh kumar Sahu, the Licensee, S/O: Late Jyoti Prasad Sahu, At Raghunathpad, PO/PS: Titilagarh, Dist: Bolangir, .

The unit is new and undersigned collector of Kalahandi to work still at Khaliakani, in P.S. in Tahasil in the district of kalahandi for manufacture and open a shop at same place from the date of this license to the 31st march 2019.

Out still system is a system under which certain number of Stills for the manufacture of liquor made allowed within certain area and the holder of an Out Still license pay certain sum per month for manufacturing Out Still Liquor in his Out Still and sell it by retail in his premises.

Country liquor manufacturing with retail sale unit under out still system is a small scale industry and the said unit is always remained under the control of the State Excise Department in terms of capacity creation, distribution and taxation. Since long the industry possesses a dilemma to the State Government, due to temptation of large revenues, on the one hand, and the other hand to supply quality liquor to the people of the locality. The State Government has started a new initiative to check and control of the illegal country liquor production business and accordingly throughout Odisha state Out Still Country liquor manufacturing and sale by retail units were established under the full control of the Excise department.

Sri Rajesh Kumar Sahu has also obtained license for establishing such a unit at a location namely Khaliakani in .

Since 1996 until now the Excise department, Odisha have renewed the said license each year.

As per Order No. 15889/Ind-I-Con-(M)1204 dtd.31.10.2016 issued by the Odisha State Pollution Control Board, , Fermentation Industry including manufacturer of Yeast, Beer, Distillation of Alcohol (extra neutral alcohol) (waste water discharge up to 100 KLD) is listed under Orange Category.

Further, Hon’ble NGT, EZB, Kolkata has issued an Order in 2017 regarding requirement of obtaining Prior Environmental Clearance from competent authority for Fermentation and Distillation units in the matter of number of cases of Manufacturing of Country Liquor.

Considering the magnitude of the unit and quantity of waste water generation (less than 25 CUM per day) and fuel consumption (less that 25 TPD) the said proposal may be considered as B2 Category for appraisal of the project for grant of Environmental Clearance at SEIAA, Odisha. Therefore, the application is being submitted at SEIAA for Environmental Clearance for the said proposal along with prescribed check list duly signed by the Excise Superintendent and other documents such as, Form-1, PFR, process flow sheet, land documents, design and specification of OS (Pot), plant layout, and copy of excise license and brief description of the project.

The country Liquor shop is located at village: Khaliakani, Tehsil: Dharamgarh, Dist: Kalahandi, Odisha.

Village: Khaliakani

Tehsil: Dharamgarh

District: Kalahandi

State: Odisha

Latitude: 20.024951

Longitude: 82.795297

1. Road Connectivity:The Out Still Shop is well connected with State Higheway-2 which is passing at a distance of 18.37km from the project site.

Rail Connectivity: Nearest Railway station is Junagarh railway station is at a distance of 22.40 km from project site.

Figure No. 1: Google Map of 10 Km Radius