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Informist, Friday, Aug 23, 2024

 

NEW DELHI – The Department of Food and Public Distribution has issued a draft Sugar (Control) Order, giving sweeping power to the Centre. The proposed draft order will replace the existing Sugar (Control) Order, 1966, as per an office memorandum released on Thursday.

 

The decision to revamp the old order was taken "due to technological advancements in the production process and multiple changes in the sugar sector", which necessitated the revamping, the department said in the memorandum. 

 

The draft order – circulated to principal secretaries of all sugar-producing states, Food and Safety and Standards Authority of India, sugar mills and sugar bodies – has sought comments and suggestions by Sep 23. 

 

The draft order states that the central government will have the power to regulate sugar production. The Centre or the state government, with the approval of the Centre, can direct that no sugar and its by-products will be manufactured from sugarcane, except under conditions specified in the licence, the order reads. 

 

The Centre will also have the power to restrict the sale, storage, and disposal of sugar by producers and dealers. The draft order has proposed that the Centre will have the power to regulate the price of sugar for sale and the movement of sugar and its by-products.

 

The draft order also gives the Centre the power to regulate the quality of sugar and its by-products. "When the Central Government is of the opinion that any stock of sugar and its by-products with any producer is below any of the Indian Sugar Standard Grades of sugar, it may direct the producer to reprocess the said stock with a view to conform to one or more of the Indian Sugar Standard Grades of sugar or to sell it only to bulk consumers," one of the clauses reads. 

 

The draft also proposes that the Centre will have the power to call for any information from producers or dealers of sugar.  End

 

Reported by Pallavi Singhal

Edited by Saji George Titus

 

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