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NCP chief Sharad Pawar haswritten a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking bail out for the sugar industry from the crisis "aggravated exponentially" by the unprecedented lockdown imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19.twitter/73MYTSt5l5— Sharad Pawar (PawarSpeaks) May 15, 2020The former Union agriculture minister also enclosed a letter from the chairman of Maharashtra State Co-operative Sugar Factories Federation Ltd while raising the concerns related to the sector.

Raised concerns through letter to Hon.Pawar noted that Modi -- even before the lockdown came into force in March-end -- had taken some "important" policy initiatives like MSP, export of sugar, buffer stock andinterest subvention on capex for ethanol production duly supported by financial measures, seeing the key industry was faced with a crisis."Hoping that the honourable PMOIndia would look into the matter and initiate necessary relief measures to resolve the crisis worsened due to Pandemic COVID?19," Pawar said."Raised concerns through letter to Hon.

In his letter, sent on Thursday, Pawar sought the prime ministers "urgent intervention" to bail the industry out from the crisis now aggravated by the lockdown.The federation has pitched for treating sugar mills distilleries as strategic business units (SBUs). On a standalone basis, banks should finance ethanol projects sanctioned under the interest subvention capex scheme announced by the Centre in 2018, it said.

The federation has suggested making provision of funds for clearing export incentives and buffer stock expenses pending since 2018-19 and 2019-20. The federation has demanded making provision of one-time grant of Rs 650 per tonne on average cane crushed during the last two years. PMOIndia and requested his urgent intervention to bail out sugar industry from crisis aggravated exponentially by unprecedented nationwide lockdown in the wake of pandemic COVID?19," Pawar tweeted.

It also insisted on converting outstanding working capital into short-term loan and rescheduling all term loans for 10 years with a moratorium of two years on the lines of the Mitra Committee recommendations."As COVID-19 crisis is worsening day by day, some immediate relief measures are suggested by the federation," Pawar said. PMOIndia and requested his urgent intervention to bail out sugar Projectile looms industry from crisis aggravated exponentially by unprecedented nationwide lockdown in the wake of pandemic COVIDー19 pic..It has called for increasing the MSP of sugar ranging from Rs 3450 to Rs 3750 with grade wise increment