Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
The Essential Commodities Act, 1955 was last amended in December, 2009 by the Essential Commodities (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2009 to remove the ambiguity as regards the factors that should be taken into consideration by the Central Government for the determination of the price of levy sugar and to validate …
Kunal Bose / July 27, 2010, 0:55 IST It will never be easy to solve the riddle as to why the Indian sugar mill industry has remained beyond the pale of reforms. Since 1991, there have been bursts of dismantling of controls benefiting almost every sector of the economy, sans …
LUCKNOW: For long-term sustainability, the sugar industry in Uttar Pradesh must consider of diversifying its product line. In a day-long seminar conducted on the sugar sector by the Confederation of Indian Industry, this was the popular opinion voiced by industry members as well as UP's infrastructure and industrial development commissioner, …
The highest sugarcane price in Uttar Pradesh paid by sugar mills this crushing session is likely to lead to a hike in the sugarcane sowing area, which had been seeing a decrease for several years now. While the crushing session is still continuing, sugar mills have paid Rs 12,111 crore …
A GOVERNMENT plan to buy ethanol for blending with petrol at a price of Rs 27 per litre may be limited to six months, although agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has asked the price to be frozen for the next three years in line with the demand by sugar mills. Mr …
At a time when NCP chief Sharad Pawar has come under attack over rise in prices of sugar and other essential commodities, the party magazine Rashtravadi has said that
Acting tough on 283 sugar mills and 22 groups of sugar mills, which did not sell their prescribed quota of sugar in the market during the month of December, the government has converted a total of 3.6 lakh tonnes of sugar from these mills into levy quota that it will …
on december 16, Rajya Sabha passed the sugarcane bill that protects the interests of farmers. The bill ensures mill owners continue to pay farmers the price difference between the fair remunerative price (frp), fixed by the Centre, and the state administered price (sap), which is higher. The Essential Commodities (amendment) …
IN AN urgent bid to revive the mandatory blending of 5% ethanol with petrol, the Centre is gearing up to rework the formula for pricing ethanol in order to activate the ethanol supply tenders from sugar factories to oil marketing companies (OMCs). The new formula is likely to include a
What could be described as the maiden success of any policy initiative announced by the Mayawati government in her 30-month rule, Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar mills has announced that it will invest Rs 1,600 crore for creating 400 MW power generation capacity through five new coal-based plants
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Even as the Centre is re-working the controversial sugarcane pricing Bill, Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh has threatened to stage a
With his basic needs mounting, the sugar mills not yet operating and the window for sowing his wheat crop narrowing, Amarjit Singh of Kayastha Ganwadi village in Meerut district decided he couldn
LUCKNOW: Even as the Uttar Pradesh government issued directives to the Divisional Commissioners and District magistrates (DMs) for evolving a consensus on the sugarcane farmers getting a price more than the State Advised Price (SAP), the growers have threatened to intensify their agitation. The cane farmers have demanded a price …
New Delhi: Pushed to the backfoot by Opposition protests, the Centre on Thursday blinked and announced it would roll back the controversial clause in the sugarcane-related amendments which shifted the financial burden of sugar mills on to state governments. Leader of the Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee told an all-party meeting …
The deadlock at the Centre over the sugarcane policy was resolved today after the government agreed to delete a controversial clause in the pricing ordinance to ensure that the responsibility of payment to farmers is borne by millowners and not the state government. This decision was taken at a meeting …
