Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh: Sugar mills in district will use jute bags for packaging sugar and the sugarcane department will be monitoring the process, reports Live Hindustan.
In a notification issued on the 24th day of April 2023, the Department of Food & Public Distribution (DFPD) had stated that sugar mills shall strictly comply with 20% packaging of the total production of sugar in jute packaging material.
Recently, the Central Government had issued orders under the provision of Jute Packaging Material (Compulsory use in Packaging use in packaging commodities) Act, 1987, specifying 20% of the total production of sugar to be mandatorily packed in the jute packaging material.
The divisional officials have stated that the remaining 80% of the sugar will be packed using plastic bags. The sugar mills will use jute bags to pack 50 kg of sugar that would be sold in the market.
