(d)The Superintendent of Excise should ordinarily spend 200 days on tour each year. He will draw up a fortnightly tour programme and submit it to the Deputy Commissioner, at least 3 days before the commencement of tour. His diaries (which should contain information as to the work done daily both at headquarters and on tour) will be submitted in duplicate to the Deputy Commissioner at the end of each month, portions of importance relating to sub-divisions being sent to the Sub- divisional officers, for transmission through proper channel after necessary action, to the Commissioner of Excise, who will after perusal retain, one copy in his office and return the other to the Deputy Commissioner when the same will be filed in the sadar Excise Office. Diaries containing confidential information will be submitted to the Deputy Commissioner by name in sealed covers and similarly transmitted by him to the Commissioner of Excise. Hurried Journeys out and back, performed on the same day, should be discouraged, and the Commissioner of Excise or the Deputy Commissioner may disallow journey of this kind if he finds them excessive in number, and refuse to count them either for purposes of travelling allowance or for making up the total number of days on tour required by the rules. In the course of his tours special attention should be directed to the inspection and preventive work of the subordinate staff, to the investigation of offence under the Excise and Opium laws, and to the sites and managements of licensed premises and the observance of the conditions of licence, more especially in the case of country spirit shops in tea gardens and other industrial areas. Fluctuations in consumption should be enquired into and the causes thereof ascertained. The above matters and any others of interest should be briefly noted in the monthly diaries.
