Hry to spend Rs 1,100 cr to revamp sugar mills

Haryana Minister of State for Cooperation, Manish Kumar Grover on Monday said that the State Government has planned to spend Rs 1,100 crore on a range of measures in the first phase to make the sugar mills of the state enter the profit list.

“Various small and big industries would be set up on the vacant land of sugar mills to increase their income. The crushing capacity of sugar mills would also be increased,” said the Minister while speaking in Jind.

Grover said that so far, 75 per cent payment had been made to the farmers for the sugarcane given by them to sugar mills. Payment of the remaining amount of Rs 395 crore would also be made soon, he said.

He further said that Rs 50 crore would be spent on the modernization of Vita milk plants. Latest machines would be made available at Vita milk plants and modernization of Vita milk plant at Jind would be done at a cost of Rs 9.5 crore, he added.

Earlier in the day, Grover inaugurated a new curd plant at Jind set up at a cost of Rs 2.14 crore. This plant will make curd from 5,000 litres of milk per day.