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Grant of leases of manufacture, sale etc.- (1) The State Government may lease to any person, competent to contract, on payment of such sum in addition to excise duty or countervailing duty, on such conditions and for such period, as it may deem fit, the right– (a) of manufacturing or of supplying by wholesale, or of both, or (b) of selling by wholesale or by retail, or (c) of storing for manufacture or sale, any country liquor, foreign liquor, beer, wine spirit within any specified area. (2) The State Government may lease to any person, competent to contract, on payment of such fee and on such conditions as the Financial Commissioner may direct under section 28, the right of manufacturing and possessing for home consumption- (a) country liquor by distillation from specified fruits or grains in tribal areas, or (b) country fermented liquor from grains in any specified area.