Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, January 14 -
Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini directed officials to set up biofuel briquetting plants in all cooperative sugar mills of the state so that the financial condition of the sugar mills can improve. He was presiding over a review meeting of the Naraingarh Sugar Mill here today.
The Chief Minister said the work of setting up a biofuel briquetting plant had been started in the Kaithal Cooperative Sugar Mill as a pilot project, in which bagasse briquettes are being made and sold to thermal power plants and other consumers of Haryana. This has also improved the financial condition of the sugar mill considerably.
He directed the officials to set up such plants in other cooperative sugar mills of the state on the same lines. He directed that every possible effort should be made to bring the cooperative sugar mills out of losses. Chief Minister expressed happiness over the steps being taken by the government in the interest of cooperative sugar mills and farmers in the state and the continuous improvement in the efficiency of cooperative sugar mills.