Notably, the farmers had met the Chief Minister for the start of sugar mills at the earliest but the mill owners were refusing to bear Rs 50 load.
In order to end this deadlock, a meeting with the mill owners was fixed today. In the meeting, it was decided to share burden by 70 per cent (State Government) and 30 per cent (Private Sugar Mill owners).
With a view to protect the interests of the farmers, he ordered to get the mills ready for early start to which the mill owners agreed to commence operations on scheduled time.
Notably, the SAP was increased from Rs 310 to Rs 360 for the year 2021-22.
Now, the private sugar mills would pay Rs 325 per quintal out of the SAP while the remaining Rs 35 per quintal would be borne by the State Exchequer.
Among others present on the occasion included the Chief Secretary Anirudh Tiwari, Financial Commissioner (Cooperation) Anurag Aggarwal, Principal Secretary (Finance) KAP Sinha, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Hussan Lal and MD Sugarfed Rajiv Gupta.
