Uttar Pradesh will get a new sugar mill in private sector during the next cane crushing season  2023-24 commencing from October. The new mill, owned by Bindal Group, is located in the Chandpur area of Bijnor district, with a capacity to crush 1,000 TCD of sugarcane.
The private sector has not witnessed the opening of new sugar mills in the state in recent years. During the 2016-17 sugarcane crushing season, 116 sugar mills were operating in the state. At that time, during the tenure of the Samajwadi Party government, a new cooperative sector mill was initiated in Sathiyawan in Azamgarh.
Subsequently, during the Bharatiya Janata Party government’s tenure, efforts to rejuvenate and enhance the capacity of existing sugar mills in Pipraich and Munderwa in Purvanchal led to the reopening of these mills. Additionally, Chhaprauli Sugar Mill in Bagpat district began operations during Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s tenure.
Preparations for the upcoming sugarcane crushing season are progressing swiftly in the state. According to information, sugarcane crushing is expected to commence either by the end of October or the beginning of November this year.
Earlier, in June last Uttar Pradesh cabinet had approved a proposal  for the revival of the closed sugar mill at Chata in Mathura district.
Besides approving the increase the daily sugarcane crushing capacity, the cabinet decided to develop the defunct asset of public sector as logistic hub  and warehousing complex.  The complex will also have a distillery  with installed capacity of 60 kilo liters per day (KLPD)  and the cane crushing capacity of the sugar mill will be 3,000 tons per day  expandable to 4,900 TCD.  The estimated cost of the project is Rs 462 crore.
The sugarcane development minister Chowdhary Lakshmi Narayan said that  the revival of the sugar mill along setting up of new distillery and  logistic hub would spur the comprehensive development of the rural areas of Mathura district as it would generate many direct and indirect jobs.  He said the National Cooperative Sugar Factories Federation Limited  had prepared detailed project report for the Chata sugar mill and distillery project.
 He said the sugar mill and the distillery would be based on the latest state of the art technology where high-pressure boiling technology, efficient milling plant and   cogeneration of electricity from the bagasse -the byproduct after cane crushing.  He said the  requirement of the staff for the project would be met from redeployment of the existing staff of the sugarcane department  and contractual employees while the other staff would be outsourced.
“The Chata sugar mill  was  set up by the Sugar Corporation in 1978 with installed capacity of 1,250 TCD. The capacity of the Chata sugar mill was expanded to 2,500 TCD in 1994. The  Mayawati government in 2009 decided to close the sugar mill  due to non availability of the sugar cane and mounting losses and the employees were given voluntary retirement  and plant and machinery was shifted to other mills of the corporation still in operation.
The Chata sugar mill is located on  Agra-Delhi highway and 500 metres from the Chata railway station. The total land area of the Chata sugar mill is 43.32 hectares  and new sugar, distillery and logistic hub would benefit close to 10 lakh farmers besides providing direct and indirect employment to thousands of youths.