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Grant of exclusive privilege of manufacture and sale of country liquor or intoxicating drugs or denatured spirit or any other intoxicant (1) The state Government may grant to any person, on such conditions and for such periods as it may think fit, the exclusive privilege (a) (i) of manufacturing or supplying wholesale, or (ii) of manufacturing and supplying wholesale, or (iii) of selling wholesale or retail or (iv) of manufacturing or supplying wholesale and selling retail or (v) of manufacturing and supplying wholesale and selling retail; any country liquor or intoxicating drug with any specified local or (b) of manufacturing, storing using, possessing, exporting, importing including wholesale or retail sale of liquor, which after manufacture is denatured to render it unfit of human consumption and is thereby termed as denatured spirit and any other intoxicant. Provided that public notice shall be given of the intention to grant any such exclusive privilege, and that any objection made by any person residing within the area affected shall be considered before an exclusive privilege is granted. (2) No grantee of any privilege under sub-section (i) shall exercise the same unless or until he has received a license in that behalf from the collector of the Excise Commissioner S.O 319 dated 18-03-1983 - In exercise of the powers conferred by the provisions to fix of section 29 of the Bihar and Orissa Excise Act 1915, the Governor of Bihar is pleased to fix exclusive privilege levy on various kinds of excise licences granted under the provisions of section 22 of the Act as per schedule below, in additional to any other fee or duty that is being imposed and realised from before. SCHEDULE A. Manufacture of intoxicant For each licence (a) Industrial spirits (Form 28A, Form 25) Rs. 2000 per month (b) Potable spirits (Form 28, 29, 18, 19, 20) (Country spirit and foreign liquor) Rs. 5000 per month (c) Industrial and potable spirits Rs. 7000 per month (d) Bhang (Form 40) Rs. 1000 per month B. Wholesale sale of intoxicants (a) Country spirits (Form 27) Rs. 8000 per month (b) Foreign liquor Bond (manufacture with wholesale) Form 1, 1A) Rs. 4000 per month Bond (Non – manufacture with wholesale ) (Form 1, 1A) Rs. 2000 per month Wholesale without bond (Form 1) Rs. 500 per month (c) Denutured spirits (Form 22) Rs. 200 per month (d) Use and storage licenses (Form 24) (a) For large undertaking and Industries based on alcohol Rs. 5000 per month (b) For small scale industries based on alcohol Rs. 500 per month (c) For hospitals, educational institutions laboratories and others Rs. 100 per month (d) For charitable institutions Nil C. Retail sale of intoxicants Municipal or Industrial areas (with two km. radius of any industrial Irrigation or other development projects or townships) other areas (Monthly) (Monthly) (a) Country spirit Rs. 1000 Rs 200 (b) Foreign liquor Rs. 500 Rs. 200 (c) Denatured spirits Rs. 50 Nil (d) Pachwai (manufacture and retail sale) Rs. 100 Rs. 50 (e) Tari (fermented) Rs. 30 Rs. 20 (f) Bhang Rs. 50 Rs. 25