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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As the Excise department in dilly-dallying on the decision to use Virutal queue app for selling liquor, the reopening of bars will also get delayed.

The current decision is to conduct the trial run of the App on Tuesday. But, neither the Beverages Corporation nor the Excise department is fully satisfied over the working of the App.

A start-up company called Faircode Technologies in Kochi has created the app. The Bevco and Excise department had held several rounds of talks with the company over the use of the App.

The efficacy of the App is being weighed by the officials to find how it would be able handle a huge crowd rushing to take token for buying liquor.

Since Aadhaar number will have to be registered to get the token, precautions will also have to be taken to ensure that the Aahaar details don’t get leaked.

If the trial run to be held tomorrow becomes a success, the App will be uploaded in the Play Store.