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Employee fired for Rs 2 lakh embezzlement but wins case in Supreme Court as employer conducted enquiry without witnessesAn employee fired for Rs 2 lakh embezzlement has won a significant victory in the Supreme Court. The apex court ruled that the employer's i...
GoM recommends hike in sugar MSP to Rs 33/kg; asks Food Minister to move cabinet noteSources said the GoM took stock of the pending sugarcane dues to be paid by sugar mills which stand at around Rs 20,000 crore so far in the...
Ram Vilas Paswan asks mills to clear Rs 22,000 cr cane arrears to farmers"Mills have to pay total Rs 72,000 crore for sugarcane purchased from farmers during the 2019-20 season (October-September). Maximum has be...
Sugar mills sweat over Rs 16,000 crore cane arrearsThe arrears this year are lower than last year’s Rs 21,000 crore. “Apart from that, mills also have to pay accumulated arrears of previous ...
UP govt gives more time to defaulting power consumers for paying duesUP Power Minister Srikant Sharma in his letter to all pradhans (village heads) said that since harvesting season of the rabi crop is approa...
5 sugar mills account for half of UP’s cane arrearsUP owes Rs 8,869 crore of the total outstanding arrears of around Rs 19,246 crore, said officials, who did not wish to be identified.
Centre wants states to pay cane farmers upfrontIndustry estimates show that mills making the sweetener, of which India is the world’s biggest consumer, already owed farmers about Rs 17,0...
Low produce, undecided prices irk Tamil Nadu cane growersSugar mills in Tamil Nadu have produced only 1.70 lakh tonnes of sugar till 31 December 2017 compared to the 1.86 lakh tonnes produced last...
UP sugar mills need to pay more than Rs 200 crore in interest arrearsUP cane commissioner’s office- the total interest payment on the outstanding dues to be about Rs 230 crore.
Sugar mills owe Rs 6,582 crore to cane farmersThe cane price arrears of Rs 3,269 crore on Fair and Remunerative Price basis and Rs 6,582 crore on State Advised Price basis are outstandi...
Sugar mills have paid about 92% of their cane dues so far: GovernmentDuring the current sugar season 2015-16, about 230 million MT of sugarcane was procured from the farmers by the sugar mills across the coun...
Government rules out loan waiver to sugar millsGovernment today ruled out any new package or loan waiver to sugar mills although their dues to sugarcane farmers have touched Rs 15,893 cr...
Rs 19,377 crore due to sugarcane farmers, says governmentThere was also no proposal currently before the Centre to pay these arrears directly to the farmers, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said.
Sugarcane arrear crosses Rs 19,000 crore; Centre calls meeting of CMsSugar mills are unable to clear the cane arrears to farmers as the ex-factory prices of the sweetener is ruling below the production cost.
Centre asks Uttar Pradesh government to take action against sugar millsPaswan, however said the government cannot keep on giving soft loans to mills and at the same time see farmers dying of hunger on streets.
- Cane farmers to get interest on arrears, says HC
The Allahabad High Court has ordered that sugar mills pay interest to cane farmers on arrears and that banks suspend agriculture loan recov...
- Sweet harvest for sugarcane farmers
It’s been one sweet return on the farm front for the country’s sugarcane farmers in the 2005-06 season.