'Clear ethanol procurement bills once in two weeks,' says Murugesh Nirani

Bengaluru: : BJP state vice-president and sugar factory owner Murugesh  Nirani on Friday appealed to the state government to expedite the process of clearing the six-month ethanol procurement arrears to the factories in order to prevent sugar factories from getting into a debt trap.

Nirani, along with several sugar factory owners, held a press conference and asserted that the Centre cleared bills within 10 days of ethanol procurement while the state government is taking six months to clear the bills. “Hence, we request the state government to release ethanol procurement bills once in 15 days to ease the burden on sugar factories,” he said.