BITTER FACTS

₹1,016 crore support given by the state government to nine operational mills in six years from 2012 to 2017 Expansion not happening of the Bhogpur sugar mills, the oldest in Punjab (set up in the mid-1950s); a proposal cleared by the state cabinet in 2014 still remains at the beginning stage Four sugar mills under liquiditation in Faridkot, Tarn Taran, Patiala and Zira, which were closed long ago Three distilleries non-functional with the Gurdaspur, Nakodar and Nawanshahr mills A co-generation plant that was built along with the Nakodar plant to generate power could never function