An Assam Assembly Committee found that the state Excise Department has not taken “sufficient steps” to prevent illegal liquor business along border areas and suggested forming an armed battalion of its own to control “accelerating” unlawful activities.

The Departmentally Related Standing Committee on Development (A) Departments of Assam Legislative Assembly in its report for Excise Department for 2021-22 also said that many “set rules are being flouted” and asked the authorities to enforce them strictly.

The Committee observes that sufficient steps have not been taken by the concerned department in the border areas of Arunachal Pradesh in case of influx of liquor.