Capt Amarinder warns against delay in payment to farmers
Tuesday, 03/06/2014
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Amritsar: Former Chief Minister and Amritsar MP Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday warned the Akali-BJP government against the undue and unwarranted delay in the payment to sugarcane farmers across Punjab by the state owned sugar mills.
He disclosed that the state owned mills owed about Rs 250 Crores to sugarcane growers which was pending for a long time now. He said, farmers were being forced to go for protest.
Asking the government to set a deadline for releasing the payment to the sugarcane growers of the state, Capt Amarinder warned, otherwise the Congress will launch a state-wide agitation.
He said, on one hand the government was asking the farmers to go for diversification and growing alternate crops like sugarcane but when it came to paying them for their produce the government had failed to pay it on time.
The former Chief Minister said, there were thousands of sugarcane growers in the state who were awaiting the payment from the government.
