Sweet (less) Sugar !

Sugar is important ingredients of Indian cuisine and during festival season sugar requirement at sweet shops across India make sugar demand and use at its peak time of the year thus to meet the market demand Government of India often releases’ extra supply of sugar and it is the time for sugar traders to reap the profit of year during festival season. This year because of less rainfall during rainy season to till date it effect badly on the yield of all the crops, resultants Union Agriculture Minister Mr.Sharad Pawar declared shortfall of all the commodities in the country and sugar is also part of this list and unfortunately coming days are of festival season in India which gives ample opportunity to the sugar traders and black marketers of country to hoard sugar now and during festivals season release it when price will surge. All this make sugar price to rise from 23 to 25 kg in retail to right now 34 to 35 and news is that it can touch the figure of 40 or more in coming days., all this make every categories of consumers to make lot of noise, it pressurize on to state governments to act against hoarders and black marketers. As per unconfirmed reports only in Punjab state almost 3 billion rupees of sugar is stored in the godawn of traders and hoarders which enter in Punjab from Uttar Pradesh illegally without paying entry tax which is 4 percent mean financial loss of lakhs of rupees to state government. On 14th August, 2009 raid by Food and Supply Department of Madhya Pradesh in Indoor area recovered 8,200 Quintal of Sugar which was worth rupees three Crores of rupees.
Past fortnight gone through with the news which was keep on pouring relating to raids on the godawn of hoarders across Punjab by Sales Tax, C.I.A. Staff and Food Supply department and whose result is that below coded Sugar seized till date and it is believe that if food supply department not found detail of seized sugar then it will sold in the market –

• On 7th September, 2009 Police and Food Supply department seized 20,000 Quintals of sugar whose price was at Rupees 7 Crores from Rajpura which comes under Patiala District of Punjab.

• On 18th September, 2009 raid by food supply department resultant collection of 97,500 quintals of sugar whose price was Rupees 30 Crores and the raid was held in the godawn of hoarder from Ludhiana.

• On 19th September, 2009 raid on the godawn of trader found 8,516 Quintals sugar whose price was Rupees 3 Crores from Ludhiana.

• Raid in the godawn in Ludhiana seize 9,780 quintals of sugar whose price was rupees more then 3 Crores on 20th September, 2009.

• On 21st September, 2009 raid by food supply department in the godawn at Jalandhar found 1,000 Quintals of sugar worth rupees 32 lakhs and same day from Amritsar 2,000 Quintals of sugar worth which was worth Rupees 64 lakhs recovered.

• 8,500 quintals sugar priced at 3 Crores seized in Amritsar godawn on 22 September, 2009.

• On 23rd Sep, 2009 Team of Food Supply Department, Sales Tax and C.I.A. Staff found 2,500 Quintals Sugar in Amritsar.

• On 25th September, 2009 from a godawn 4,000 quintals of sugar seized by authority in Amritsar, some days back 10,000 quintals of sugar also seized from this location by officials.

In Moga district from the premises of a factory in place of allotted quantity of 2000 quintals found 12,000 quintals of sugar ,So it is proving correct above mentioned unconfirmed reports of dump of 3 billion rupees of sugar in the different part of Punjab state by hoarders and black marketers and if we believe on to claims made by Food supply department till date they have seized sugar worth rupees 75 to 85 Crores ,at the same time departments of food and Supply, Sales Tax and Police department also deserve to be praised as every passing day they are seizing stores of hoarders and hopefully in the coming days price will come down drastically of sugar as now other states also going to take action against black marketers and hoarders.