Online Filing Of Declaration Form Gets Easier For UP Sugarcane Farmers, Uploading Details Not Needed Anymore outlookindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from outlookindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Over 44.40 lakh farmers of the state have downloaded the e-Ganna App where they are getting the benefit of being directly connected to the Uttar Pradesh Sugarcane Department. This has freed the farmers from the presence of middlemen.
Sugarcane output per hectare rises in UP prokerala.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from prokerala.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at a book release event on March 19 (Maneesh Agnihotri)
Even as the stalemate over the new farm laws drags on, and neither the Centre nor the agitating farmers showing signs of relenting, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has begun to make conciliatory gestures. With the assembly election due in less than a year, the interventions may prove to be timely. A week-long ‘Gram Chaupal’ campaign, which got under way on March 11, entrusts BJP leaders in the state, including all ministers in the Yogi government, with the responsibility of reaching out to the 58,194 gram sabhas in the state, and publicising the farmer-friendly decisions of the state government. Launching the programme from the Gangaganj area of Lucknow, Swatantra Dev Singh, president of the BJP state unit and the person in charge of the campaign, held meetings in a dozen districts, including Sitapur, Sultanpur, Jaunpur, Ghazip
Punjab govt finds evidence about mills selling sugar ‘off the book’
National
January 18, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government claimed on Saturday that officials associated with its Cane Department got hands on some “conclusive evidence” against several sugar mills which were selling sugar off the book in an apparent attempt to dodge taxes. There is a strong circumstantial evidence of huge quantities of sugar being sold off-the-book. Following facts point to this illegal practice. If off-the-book purchases from the middlemen and the purchase centres are accounted for, figures of off-the-book sale of sugar go much higher. They (millers) have established their purchase centres in the field where sugarcane is purchased from the farmers. Almost all the sugar mills were found not issuing cane purchase receipts (CPRs) at these centres, cane commissioner Punjab revealed in a letter written to the Punjab Industries Department.