Punjab: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann today took a historic visualization by announcing an increase in the State Agreed Price (SAP) for sugarcane to Rs 416 per quintal for the upcoming superincumbent season.
With this announcement, Punjab has once then wilt the state offering the highest price to sugarcane farmers in the country, demonstrating his government's firm transferral to protecting farmers' interests.
While interacting with the media without inaugurating a new sugar mill and co-generation plant in Dinanagar, CM Mann expressed hope that this pro-farmer step by the government would profoundly goody sugarcane growers, expressly those in the verge districts.
What utterance were made by CM Mann?
The Chief Minister stated that sugarcane is an spanking-new volitional to water-guzzling crops like paddy and will strengthen the state's yield diversification efforts. He moreover appealed to the inside government to recognise and promote sugarcane as a water-saving volitional crop.
On this occasion, the Chief Minister defended the newly synthetic Cooperative Sugar Mill and a 28.5 MW Co-generation Power Plant in Gurdaspur (Dinanagar) to the public. He mentioned that the mill, which started in 1980 with a topics of 1,250 TCD (Tonnes Crushed per Day), was later expanded to 2,000 TCD.
Now, the superincumbent topics of this new mill has been expanded to 5,000 TCD to ensure efficient processing of approximately 80 lakh quintals of sugarcane in the area. He said that this new ramified will increase processing capacity, enhance farmers' income, modernize sugar quality, reduce the undersong of transportation, and create a sustainable source of revenue from electricity export, providing uncontrived and indirect employment to thousands of people.
What CM Mann informed well-nigh the Sugar Plant?
The Chief Minister remoter informed that a state-of-the-art Sulphurless Refined Sugar Plant has moreover been installed in the complex, which will produce premium-grade sugar. Furthermore, the 28.5 MW Co-generation Power Plant is expected to export an spare 20 MW of electricity to PSPCL, generating an unscientific yearly revenue of approximately Rs 20 crore for the mill every superincumbent season.
He said that this expansion is expected to increase the number of farmers supplying sugarcane to the mill from 2,850 to nearly 7,025, which will reduce their dependence on afar private mills and save them transportation time and cost.
Responding to the demands of the public as well as farmers, the Chief Minister spoken that the long-standing demand for a medical higher in the region will be fulfilled soon. Additionally, the government has started the process to establish a Government Higher for Girls in Tarn Taran to provide quality higher education to young women, and work is underway to build a new overbridge on the railway line in Jandiala Guru to modernize connectivity.
What CM Mann said well-nigh Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojana?
Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann stated that the state government is fully prepared to launch the 'Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojana' (Chief Minister's Health Scheme), which will ensure an insurance imbricate of Rs 10 lakh for citizens. He moreover expressed pride that Punjab has successfully sealed 17 toll plazas to reduce the undersong on commuters. He mentioned that 90% of households in Punjab are receiving self-ruling domestic electricity.
Earlier, the Chief Minister moreover launched the 'Fateh Sugar' trademark of sulphurless refined sugar (one-kilogram pack and 5-gram sachet), which is stuff produced at the Batala Cooperative Sugar Mill. Cabinet Minister Lal Chand Kataruchakk and Sugarfed Chairman Navdeep Singh Jeeda were moreover present on the occasion.
