Photo: Delhi residents queue up for drinks at a liquor shop
New Year’s week saw the residents of India’s capital New Delhi guzzle over ten million liquor bottles worth $26.3 million.
The humongous quantity of drinks was reportedly consumed over one week of holidays, spanning Christmas eve to New Years’ eve.
The highest sale of 2.03 million bottles of liquor worth $5.46 million was recorded on New Year’s eve.
The total number of liquor bottles sold during the last week of 2022 stood at 11 million.
Among the different kinds of liquors Delhiites purchased, various kinds of Whiskies topped the list.
Off this sale, the country’s capital’s government earned $65.55 million, which includes excise duty and Value Added Tax (VAT).
December as a whole saw an average sale of 1.38 million bottles per day in Delhi.
WION reports that the least amount of bottles sale was recorded on December 27 with less than one million worth $2.33 million.
This figure means that 2022 saw the best end year of the sale of liquor in three years.
In 2021 the total number of liquor bottles sold was 1.25 million.
For 2020 the figure was 1.29 million, while 2019 saw the sale of 1.25 million bottles.
