Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav inaugurated the Sathiaon sugar mill and a cogeneration plant of 15 mw in Azamgarh on Tuesday. SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and former party general secretary Amar Singh were also present on the occasion. Azamgarh is the lok Sabha constituency of Mulayam Singh.
The sugar factory in co-operative sector was constructed in 1975 and was closed over a decade back. The mill has been refurbished with modern plant and machinery at the cost of Rs 338 crores. The CM also laid the foundation of 34 projects costing Rs 638 crore and inaugurated 38 projects completed with the expenditure of Rs 554 crore.
In his address to a gathering at the sugar mill premises, the CM also announced to construct an astro-turf hockey stadium in Azamgarh. He said that the Sathion sugar mill is a modern sugar mill in the country. The state government had announced a budgetary support of Rs 250 crore for the sugar mill in the budget of 2015-16 and the foundation stone was laid by the SP chief in February last year.
The refurbished sugar mill has come up in the same premises. The mill would also have a distillery unit and a co-generation power plant of 15 MW capacity. The crushing capacity of the mill will be 3,500 MT per day.
Situated on Azamgarh-Ballia Road, Sathiaon has been known for its sugar mill run by Kisan Sahkari Chini Mills ltd which was closed down in 2007. Its foundation stone was laid in 1974 by the then PM Indira Gandhi and the mill became operational in 1975. Over 17,000 cane growers of Azamgarh were associated with the mill.
CM said Azamgarh being the parliamentary constituency of the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has surpassed Etawah and Kannauj in all indicators of development. He said the there was no dearth of funds for the development of Azamgarh and the state government would continue to provide necessary resources for the development. Azamgarh besides the lok Sabha constituency of Mulayam Singh is politically significant for the SP as the ruling party had won 9 out of total 10 assembly seats in the district.
Akhilesh Yadav said during the last four years the Samajwadi party government has changed the profile of the state by7 unleashing all round development of the state, particularly the development of the infrastructure. He said in 22 months Agra- luck now expressway will be completed which is being extended to Ballia. He said SP fulfilled all the promised it had made in its election manifesto in 2012.
This was the second visit by the SP chief to his parliamentary constituency after winning from Azamgarh in May 2014. Earlier Mulayam Singh had visited Azamgarh in February last year and had announced development projects worth Rs 1,987 crore for Azamgarh. At that time, he had laid foundation of 105 projects.