The Government has issued new guidelines mandating sugar mills to adhere to timelines for submitting their monthly P-II returns. The integration process of ERP/SAP systems of sugar mills with the NSWS portal, via APIs was initiated with the aim to ensure real time data availability, improve data accuracy, and eliminate redundant data.
During the month of May-2025, 467 sugar mills shared their April-2025 P-II form through API. Also, remaining mills are developing their module to integrate their system with NSWS through API.
To streamline the process of filing of monthly P-II returns, the following timelines will be implemented with immediate effect:-
(i) Sugar mills which have completed their API integration with NSWS portal, shall submit their monthly P-II by 15th day of every month.
(ii) The sugar mills which are not able to file P-II by 15th day, due to technical issues or are in the process of API integration, may be allowed to file their P-II till 20th day of every month, on case to case basis. The concerned sugar mill is required to make their request for the same through email.
(iii) NSWS portal will be opened from 16th to 20th day of every month, for manual submission of P-II for the sugar mills which cannot completed their API integration with NSWS portal and not whitelisted on production server.
“Sugar mills have been directed to comply with the timelines for filing of monthly P-II return, in letter and spirit. In case, any sugar mills fails to comply with timelines, no monthly release quota of sugar will bе allocated from July-2025 onwards,” the Department of Food & Public Distribution said in communication to sugar mills.
