Panaji: In a fresh order, the excise department has stated that customers at bar and restaurants will have to place orders for alcohol by 10.30pm. It has reiterated that no alcohol will be served after 11pm.
Alcohol licence holders have been directed to display two boardsone outside their respective restaurants/bars and the other at their respective bar countersspecifying the timings.
The order was issued after the district magistrates relaxed closure timings for hotels, restaurants, bars and shacks. They had allowed restaurants, hotels and clubs to remain open after 11pm but directed that liquor counters be shut at 11pm.
The relaxation was granted after the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG), an association of tourism stakeholders, told the chief electoral officer (CEC) that trade was suffering due to early closure timings.
