Ahilyanagar: The Maharashtra Sugar Commissioner’s Office has started the process to appoint 50 new executive directors in cooperative sugar mills across the state. These appointments are now compulsory for all mills. In Ahmednagar district alone, three mills were without executive directors, and they will now be required to fill those posts, reports Daily Sakal. According to orders from the Sugar Commissioner, mills must choose executive directors from a newly approved list of 50 eligible candidates. These appointments have to follow the government’s instructions and cannot be avoided.
The announcement from Sugar Commissioner Siddharam Salimath confirmed that all cooperative sugar mills must follow this order. These executive directors will stay in their roles until they retire, with no fixed term. The government also clarified that only candidates recommended by the Sugar Commissioner’s Office can be appointed. The executive directors will first serve a one-year probation period. If any of them fail in their duties or behave inappropriately, the mill’s board of directors has the authority to remove them.
Executive directors help manage the daily functioning of sugar mills. They support the board in carrying out decisions and ensure all actions follow rules. Their role is key to running mills smoothly and responsibly. Although Ahmednagar is a symbol of the cooperative movement, private mills have been growing rapidly. This season, 22 sugar mills were active in the district, and 9 of them were private. These mills usually offer better prices for sugarcane, so many farmers choose to sell to them instead of to cooperative mills. In this season, a total of 1 crore (10 million) metric tonnes of sugarcane were crushed in Ahmednagar district. With the growth in production and the rising number of mills, appointing responsible leaders is seen as an important step to improve management in the sector.
