Dr. Arvind Sharma drives Haryana’s cooperative sector with grain storage expansion, ethanol plant, and sugar mill revival under PM Modi’s vision.

Haryana is fully committed to putting the Union Ministry of Cooperation’s new cooperation policy into practice. Cooperative societies in Haryana will now enter the grain storage industry in accordance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Sahkar se Samriddhi” vision and Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah’s “Sang Chalen, Sang Badhen” tenet.

Cooperation Minister Dr. Arvind Sharma has ordered that the effort be started with CM PACS and that interested cooperative societies be identified as a first move in this direction. In order to revitalize state cooperative sugar mills and lessen their losses, he has also ordered the creation of a coordination committee as soon as possible. Senior officers from all cooperative institutions, Vijayendra Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary of the Cooperation Department, and the Cooperation Minister presided over a review meeting in the Committee Room of the Haryana Civil Secretariat.

According to Dr. Arvind Sharma, the Central Government has approved the construction of warehouses with a capacity of 10 lakh metric tons and designated HAFED as the state’s focal agency for grain storage facility construction. In this regard, proposals for 1.38 lakh metric tonnes have already been presented to the State-Level Committee, and HAFED has approved the construction of warehouses with a capacity of 3.35 lakh metric tonnes thus far.

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CM PACS will also be given possibilities in the grain storage industry to guarantee that cooperative societies contribute significantly to the “Atmanirbhar Bharat – Viksit Bharat” goal. In order for them to benefit practically, the Cooperation Minister instructed officers to notify all CM PACS who are registered in the state about these opportunities and to make it easier for them to participate.

Dr. Sharma instructed the Cooperative Sugar Mills Federation to create a unique action plan in order to revitalize cooperative sugar mills and pull them out of financial distress. A coordinating group should be established shortly, he urged, to examine all sugar mills and provide a report with suggestions for their revival.

The Cooperation Minister ordered that harvesting machinery be made available on a subsidy as soon as possible in collaboration with the Agriculture Department in order to alleviate the labor crisis that sugarcane growers are experiencing. Additionally, he ordered authorities to produce a study on the viability of installing ethanol plants in additional cooperative sugar mills and to accelerate the establishment of an ethanol plant in Panipat at a cost of ₹200 crore.

Dr. Arvind Sharma also went over the Chief Minister’s budget-related statements and announcements about the Cooperation Department.