By IANS,
Bhopal : Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has asked the agriculture ministry to make available 41,000 tonnes of sugar to meet the shortfall during the festive season.
“The Government of India should import sugar in order to make it available to the common people at fair price,” Chouhan wrote in a letter to Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar late Tuesday.
“The sugar mills in Maharashtra have so far not made available 41,000 tonnes levy sugar to the state,” he said.
According to the chief minister, the state has not received its quota of sugar despite repeated reminders to the central government. “This has resulted in adverse effect on availability of sugar and price rise in the state.”
Chouhan alleged that the sugar mills earned undue profit by selling sugar manufactured by them at very high rates. “This act of sugar mills also resulted in non-availability of sugar to the consumers at reasonable rates.”
Chohan has also drawn Pawar’s attention to the measures taken by the state government to control rising prices of sugar and the possible measures in the state. He said Madhya Pradesh Sugar Trader License and Control Act, 2009 has been enforced in the state.