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Every effort must be made to bring cooperative sugar mills out of losses: Nayab Singh Saini
CM presides over review meeting of Naraingarh Sugar Mill in Chandigarh
Chandigarh, 14 January 2025
Haryana Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini directed officials to set up biofuel briquetting plants in all cooperative sugar mills of the state so that the financial condition of the sugar mills can improve. He was presiding over a review meeting of the Naraingarh Sugar Mill here today.
The Chief Minister said the work of setting up a biofuel briquetting plant had been started in the Kaithal Cooperative Sugar Mill as a pilot project, in which bagasse briquettes are being made and sold to thermal power plants and other consumers of Haryana. This has also improved the financial condition of the sugar mill considerably.
He directed the officials to set up such plants in other cooperative sugar mills of the state on the same lines. He directed that every possible effort should be made to bring the cooperative sugar mills out of losses.
Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini expressed happiness over the steps being taken by the government in the interest of cooperative sugar mills and farmers in the state and the continuous improvement in the efficiency of cooperative sugar mills.
The Chief Minister was informed in the meeting that in the current crushing season 2024-25, till January 13, all the cooperative sugar mills associated with Sugarfed have crushed a total of 113.56 lakh quintals of sugarcane and produced 9.18 lakh quintals of sugar with an average sugar recovery of 8.70 per cent.
In the last crushing season 2023-24, Rohtak, Sonipat, Jind, Palwal, Meham, Kaithal and Gohana cooperative sugar mills saved about 7.14 lakh quintals of bagasse and earned additional revenue of Rs 1,630.31 lakh. During the meeting, Sugarfed Chairman Sh. Dharambir Singh Dagar gave suggestions to improve the financial condition of the sugar mills.
Chief Secretary Dr. Vivek Joshi, Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Sh. Rajesh Khullar, Principal Secretary Sh. Arun Kumar Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance and Planning, Sh. Anurag Rastogi, Additional Chief Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Sh. Anand Mohan Sharan, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Sh. Saket Kumar, Director, Agriculture Department Sh. Rajnarayan Kaushik, Director, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Sh. Rajesh Jogpal, Managing Director, Haryana State Federation of Cooperative Sugar Mills Sh. Shakti Singh and other senior officers were present in the meeting.
