Haryana Tourism Corporation will now run six liquor vends in Gurugram as a pilot project. This decision by the state government comes after the tourism department wanted to explore new revenue options especially when tourism industry was immensely was hit during the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of Covid-19.

The Gururgam excise department had placed an advertisement on June 23 for auction of 78liquor vends in 39 zones, following which the Haryana Tourism Corporation filed tenders and were allotted the three zones and each zones has two vends.

The company was allotted six liquor vends in three zones after it followed the bidding process through these vends quality will be ensured and the liquor prices at stores run by the corporation will be cheaper as compared to that of other liquor vends.

The six liquor shops which will be run by the tourism corporation are situated at Hero Honda Chowk, Bakhtawar Chowk and Atul Kataria Chowk. If the the project is successful Haryana Tourism will look forward towards opening more vends and supplying quality liquor at best prices.