SETTLEMENT OF INTERNAL TRANSPORT AND
FREIGHT CHARGES FOR SUGAR EXPORT
FOOD MINISTRY
HOLDS SPECIAL CAMPS IN STATES
Ministry of Food
and Consumer Affairs will be conducting special camps in different
states for the speedy disposal of claims of sugar factories pertaining
to reimbursement of inland transport and freight charges for export
of sugar. The first such camp will be held at Pune from September
18 to 20 for sugar factories of Maharashtra. Camps will also be
held in major sugar exporting states like Gujarat, Karnataka,
Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. According to Shri Sharad Yadav,
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, quick
disposal of internal transport and freight charges on export shipments
of sugar will give a boost to sugar exports from India.
In order to liquidate
the surplus stock of sugar, the Government decided to promote
export of sugar and offered a number of incentives. One of the
incentives related to reimbursement of internal transport and
freight charges for sugar factories upto the loading point at
the port of export. The Government notified the necessary rules
in this regard in June 2002. The settlement of the claims were
not always prompt on account of the delay in most cases in getting
necessary clarifications from the sugar factories particularly
from the cooperative sugar factories.
The camp being held
at the office of the Commissioner of Sugar, Government of Maharashtra
at Pune is headed by Shri R.P. Bhagria, Director, Sugar, Ministry
of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
