Eligibility to apply for Excise Policy Year 2025-26

For the year 2025-26, the settlement of all country liquor shops, composite shops (English +
beer), Bhang shops and model shops will be done shop-wise through e-lottery by inviting online
applications. For this, it will be mandatory for the applicant to first register himself on the e-lottery
portal. In this process, first of all open any browser on your computer/laptop. By typing the URL of the
e-lottery portal (URL) https://exciseelotteryup.upsdc.gov.in/ in the address column of the browser, the
home page of the e-lottery portal will open. After this, the related information will start appearing on
the portal, fill them correctly and proceed further. The eligibility conditions for the application are as
follows-

1. The applicant should be a citizen of India. For this, it is not necessary that the applicant should be a
resident of the district, tehsil, block etc. in which he is interested to apply for shops, that means, a
citizen of any region of India can apply for a shop in any district of Uttar Pradesh by participating in the
e-lottery process.

2. Partnership firms or companies will not be eligible to apply for retail shops.

3. At the time of applying, the age of the applicant should not be less than 21 years.

4. The applicant can submit only one application form in his name for any one shop.

5. An applicant can submit applications for more than one shop, but a maximum of two shops can be
allotted to an applicant in the entire state in the e-lottery process, that is, a person can get a maximum
of only 02 shops in the entire state, but can apply for all the shops.

6. This year, the provision of taking bank draft of earnest money in the application process for e-lottery
has been abolished, i.e. bank draft of earnest money is not required.

7. It will be mandatory for the applicant to submit (upload) the following documents at the time of
application-

i. PAN card. While submitting the PAN card here, keep in mind that only that PAN card will be valid, in
which 'P' is written in the fourth place in the PAN number.

ii. Solvency certificate or Net Asset certificate issued by the authorized income tax valuer for this. For
the country liquor shop, above mentioned Solvency certificate will be equal to 1/6 (sixth part) of the
total amount of the sum of basic license fee and license fee of the shop and will be equal to the license
fee of composite shop, model shops and retail shops of bhang. For this, Solvency certificates issued
after 01.01.2024 will only be valid.

iii. Details of income tax return.

iv. The applicant shall submit the affidavit in the prescribed format available on the portal, i.e., along
with the application form, interested applicant will have to upload Nominee Affidavit and Nominee
Consent Affidavit on the E-Lottery portal. Applicants who do not wish to upload Nominee Affidavit and
Nominee Consent Affidavit can save their application by clicking on the Save Application Button
directly after uploading the Applicant Affidavit.

8. It is mandatory for the selected applicants to deposit the entire basic license fee for the year 2025-
26 for the country liquor shop and the entire license fee for composite shop (English + Beer) and model
shop within 03 working days of receiving the allotment certificate, otherwise the allotment of the
shop will be cancelled.
Here basic license fee in country liquor means that the minimum quota of every country liquor shop
is determined in bulk litres, which is mandatory to be lifted, the amount that comes after multiplying
that minimum quota by Rs. 32, will be the basic license fee of that shop.

9. The option of renewal for the next year 2026-27 will be available for all the shops settled through e-
lottery in the year 2025-26, that is, if the allottees of the year 2025-26 want to renew their shop for
the next year 2026-27, then the option of renewal will be available on payment of the dues determined
in due time.

10. The selected applicants will be required to deposit 50% of the security amount (10% of the license
fee or 1/10th of the amount) of the shop received through e-lottery within 10 days from the date of
e-lottery, 30% within 25 days from the date of e-lottery and the remaining 20% within 35 days. If not
deposited within the stipulated period, there is a provision of late fee of only 15 days. After this the
shop will be cancelled.

This year for 2025-26, only e-bank guarantee will be accepted as security, which will be pledged to the
Excise Commissioner or District Excise Officer. This system is being implemented for the first time.

11. After allotment of shop to the selected applicant, it will be mandatory for him to lift the minimum
quota in bulk litres of country liquor and minimum revenue in Rs. prescribed for composite shop
(English + Beer) and model shop as per rules.

The minimum revenue prescribed for composite shop and model shop in Rs, which is called MGR,
means that in each such composite shop and model shop, minimum revenue in Rs. is prescribed
annually and monthly, it is mandatory to lift liquor equal to MGR.

12. In this year 2025-26, the processing fee (application fee) of the shops will be payable on the E-
Lottery Portal as per rules. The processing fee of the shops according to unit-wise, area-wise, which
will not be refunded i.e. will be non-refundable are as follows-
S.No. Type of retail shop Application Processing Fee (in Rs.)
Processing fee of Shops situated in the Shops situated in Shops situated in Shops situated in Shops located in
application form (in development authority the area of other the area of the area of Nagar rural areas
Rs.) areas of Gautam Buddha Municipal Municipality and Panchayat and (Category-5)
Nagar district and within Corporations and within the radius within the radius
the radius of 03 km from within the radius of 03 km from its of 01 km from its
its boundary, Shops of 03 km from its boundary boundary
situated in the Municipal boundary except (Category-3) (Category-4)
Corporation covered areas Category-1
of Ghaziabad, Lucknow, (Category-2)
Agra, Varanasi, Prayagraj,
Gorakhpur, Kanpur and
within the radius of 03 km
from its boundary
(Category-1)
1 Country Liquor ₹ 65,000/- ₹ 60,000/- ₹ 50,000/- ₹ 45,000/- ₹ 40,000/-
2 Composite Shop ₹ 90,000/- ₹ 85,000/- ₹ 75,000/- ₹ 65,000/- ₹ 55,000/-
3 Model Shop ₹ 1,00,000/- ₹ 90,000/- ₹ 80,000/- ₹ 70,000/- ₹ 60,000/-
4 Bhang ₹ 25,000/- ₹ 25,000/- ₹ 25,000/- ₹ 25,000/- ₹ 25,000/-