Owed cane dues to tune of Rs 49 crore:
Jalandhar, October 27: Since pending sugarcane dues of farmers have been a major poll issue, the authorities have started taking action for making recoveries. The Kapurthala district administration has attached personal properties of the directors of Wahid-Sandhar Sugars Ltd in Phagwara.
The properties have been attached and Phagwara Tehsildar has even issued public notices asking people not to buy or sell these properties as these could be recovered to avail the pending dues. The mill reportedly has dues to the tune of Rs 49 crore, including Rs 42 crore of the last year. The attached properties include 104 kanal and 7.25 marla property in Jagatpur Jattan village, 45 kanal and 8.75 marla property in Nihalgarh, 7 kanal and 6 marla property in Phagwara Sharki, besides other properties in Dhandoli, Rawalpindi, Bir Dhandoli, Dhak Dhandoli, Bhullarai, Chak Bhullarai, Khurampur and Chak Khurampur villages.
Kapurthala Deputy Commissioner Deepti Uppal confirmed having attached these properties. A Tehsildar from Hoshiarpur also said the properties of a Phagwara mill directors at Khanaura village and Garhshankar too had been attached recently on the orders of the Kapurthala administration. “After they released some payment, we unattached them again as per the directives issued to us,” he said.
Doaba Kisan Sangharsh Committee leader Surinder Singh said the Phagwara mill had dues to the tune of Rs 40-50 crore. “The payment has not been made to the farmers for the past two years. The farmers have been in grave trouble and attaching the properties of mill owners is a step in the right direction,” he said.
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