Sugarcane growers in Punjab and Haryana can expect a payment of Rs248 crore in the coming days as the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered both the States to get the farmers dues cleared within a month.
Setting a deadline of a month for the States of Punjab and Haryana to make pending payments, High Court has ordered that the payments should go directly into the farmers’ bank account.
During the resumed hearing of the case, the High Court was told that the Co-operative mills in Punjab and Haryana have already made full and final payments to the farmers. The counsel for Punjab said that around Rs 200 Crore of the sugarcane farmers is pending with the sugar mills and this entire amount is to be paid by 6 private sugar mills. He said that the state is in the process to provide soft loans to these mills so that they can make the payment of the farmers.