JHANG City News

‘Sugar mills deny dues to growers’
From Our Correspondent
JHANG: The management of a local sugar mills in the current season too had started delaying payments to the growers, Amir Naul - district bar association president - said on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference, Naul claimed that sugar mills, according to him owned by a billionaire close to the Sharifs, told the Punjab cane commissioner and the district administration that it had made fully disbursed the amount payable to the growers, but the mills had actually withheld billions of rupees for the current and last years.
Naul showed the purchasing receipts of a number of growers whose dues are yet to be paid and alleged that that the district coordination officer (DCO) was not helping them in getting their dues.
The bar president claimed that when the growers approached the DCO to resolve the issue, the district administration sent them to the mills management where they humiliated. He said huge deductions had been made while purchasing sugarcane during the current season.
The bar president said the growers would observe a hunger strike and stage a sit-in outside the sugar mills, adding that the distract administration and the millers would be responsible for any law and order situation.