Ghaziabad district administration has ordered to lodge an First Information Report (FIR) against Umesh Kumar Modi, Managing Director (MD) of Modi Sugar Mills and other senior officials of the company for not paying arrears of sugarcane farmers. District Magistrate Ritu Maheswari has ordered to seize the go-down of the company containing sugar stock and to also seal the office of General Manager and the MD in the factory premises," said an official posted at district information office in Ghaziabad.
Amarjit Singh Biddi, a local farmer said that the district administration informed us that action has been initiated against the officials of the sugar mill. "Our only demand is to get our outstanding amount pending from last year," he said.
Interestingly, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath's will be visiting to Modi Nagar in Ghaziabad district on December 23 to inaugurate various works in the region. The farmers have also planned to organize a grand meeting at the factory gate on December 23.
"The district administration wants to settle the dispute of farmers and the sugar mill owners on or before December 23, the day of CM's visit. But this is not the way to resolve the pending issue," said the farmers leader Rajvir Singh, adding that our due of around Rs 123 crore is still pending with the sugar mill and we don't want assurance but our payments.