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Escrow account proving a boon for sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh

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UP CM Yogi Adityanath not only revived the battered cane and sugar industry in the state but also changed the fortune of cane farmers by making a record payment to them.Soon after the Yogi Adityanath-government came to the power, it made mandatory for mills to open an escrow account which proved to be a boon for farmers in protecting, securing, increasing their income and bringing in transparency to the system.

As per rules, 85 percent money received in the account was kept for farmer payment. This resulted in arresting diversion of money for purposes other than cane payment.

This new system brought transparency in getting the amount of sugarcane price from sugar mills to the farmers. Now the account of sugarcane price is being operated jointly by the mill representative and district cane officer/senior cane development inspector.

Earlier, mills used to divert funds for other purposes. But after setting up an escrow account, the money deposited was used directly for payment of cane price to the farmers.

For instance, a purchaser of sugar from mills is required to deposit 85 per cent of the price of the commodity in the escrow account and the rest 15 per cent to the seller i.e. sugar mills. Gradually, molasses, bagasse, ethanol and even sanitiser were added in the Yogi government.

Besides, ethanol produced from B-heavy molasses or sugarcane juice and that used for sanitizer production were also tagged for payment of cane price. In fact, cane price payment got accelerated due to an increase in ethanol production and sale.

Such sugar mills, which are making ethanol directly from sugarcane juice, have tagged 55 percent of the value of ethanol produced in those mills for payment of cane price.

About 65 percent of the selling price of ethanol used by the mills for the production of sanitizers has also been tagged for payment of sugarcane price, due to which the problem of payment of sugarcane price to the farmers has ended.

The state government has taken many big steps to strengthen the sugarcane farmers in the state. To address the various problems of sugarcane farmers, the government has issued a toll free number 1800-121-3203.

Now the sugarcane farmers are getting their solution by registering their complaint on toll-free number 1800-103-5823 for the problem of survey, speculation, calendar, slip etc. With this initiative of the government, so far 117926 complaints out of 122125 complaints have been resolved.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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