Implementation of decisions taken by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) regarding interventions to deal with the current crisis in the sugar sector

New Delhi: Pursuant to the decisions taken by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) in its meeting held on 06.06.2018, Department of Food & Public Distribution (DF&PD) has issued the following orders/notifications on 07.06.2018

a) Sugar Price (Control) Order, 2018

b) Order under the provisions of the Sugar Price (Control) Order, 2018 directing that no producer of sugar shall sell white/refined sugar at factory gate at a rate below Rs. 29/kg till further orders;

c) Order directing that no producer of sugar shall hold the quantity of white/refined sugar stock at the end of the each month as specified by Government every month.

d) Order directing the quantity of white/refined sugar stock that every producer of sugar shall hold at the end of June, 2018.