GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
RAJYA SABHA
STARRED QUESTION NO: 32
TO BE ANSWERED ON 20.11.2009
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM SUGAR DEVELOPMENT FUND
*32. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Will the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, be please to state:
(a) whether it is a fact that Karnataka Government has recommended nine proposals to the Centre for financial assistance from Sugar Development Fund for the development of sugarcane areas of the sugar factories and also for expansion-cum-cooperation scheme; and
(b) if so, by when the proposals are likely to be cleared by the Centre and the reasons for delay as eight of the nine proposals have been pending since 2002 onwards and in the ninth case in which first instalment of assistance was released in April, 2006, the second one is awaited since then?
ANSWER
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
(SHRI SHARAD PAWAR)
(a) & (b): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.