Minister Heads To India For Spare Parts Purchase

A Government minister will leave for a shopping trip to India, in a move that can be likened to a band-aid solution to old archaic problem.

A date has not been revealed about the quest for spare parts for sugar mills.

A budget for the entire exercise is also unknown.

But Sugar minister, Charan Jeath Singh, has also called for a long term alternative to the old problem faced by sugar miulls.

The trip is among moves to ad­dress ongoing concerns over the need to improve the deteriorating state of the mill’s infrastructure, he said.

“I would be meeting with a rea­sonable number of State-owned mill owners and millers,” Mr Singh said.

“This trip would offer me an op­portunity to negotiate with these mill companies in India, to pur­chase lying and unused state-of-art mills, which still have an adequate shelf-life left”

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