Mandya: The State Government on Thursday appointed District Congress Committee President C.D. Gangadhar as the Chairman of the State-owned Mysore Sugar Company Limited (MySugar). Following this, hectic lobbying for District Congress Committee President’s post has begun. The post of MySugar Chairman being equivalent to Cabinet ranking, had many aspirants to the coveted post. However, Chief…
MySugar to re-start functioning from this year, says Minister
February 24, 2022Mandya: The operations of MySugar, Mandya’s iconic sugar factory, which were shut down in 2019-2020, will resume this year. Speaking to presspersons after visiting MySugar factory here on Wednesday, Minister for Sugar and Textiles Shankar Patil Munenakoppa said that the Government was doing everything it can to revive the nearly century old sugar factory, which…
Musings on MySugar: May the sugar be sweeter
October 23, 2021Air-India comes back to TATAs ; Business of Government is not to be in business Our Mandya farmers must be the happier lot now. After years of uncertainty about the local Sugar Factory (Mysore Sugar Company Limited) which was deep in loss and was virtually closed, the farmers whose primary commercial crop is sugarcane, heard…
State Govt. to run MySugar factory for two years
October 19, 2021Bengaluru: In what is a welcome decision for farmers and the people of Mandya, the State Government on Monday announced that it would halt the move to privatise the loss-making State-run MySugar (Mysore Sugar Company Ltd.,) factory at Mandya and run the factory on its own for two years. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai made the…
MySugar not to be privatised: CM
October 18, 2021Bengaluru: Bringing cheer to farmers and people of Mandya district,who are staging an indefinite stir at Mandya strongly opposing the Government’s MySugar factory privatisation plans, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai declared here this morning that the decades old Sugar Factory at Mandya will not be privatised. Briefing presspersons in the State capital after holding a meeting…
CM Bommai receives memoranda to start MySugar and ban illegal mining in Mandya
August 11, 2021Mandya: A rousing welcome was given to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on his way to Mysuru here on Monday, by members of Farmers’ Organisations, Progressive Thinkers and BJP workers. They also submitted memoranda to him seeking resumption of MySugar factory, a complete ban on illegal mining and fair probe into the milk adulteration scam in…
‘MySUGAR’ on the brink of closure By Nagaiah Lalanakere
December 31, 2018Mandya: Even as iconic industries in Mandya district — Mandya National Paper Mill at Belagola in Srirangapatna taluk and Mandya Acetate and Chemicals near Mandya — have shut down decades ago, another prestigious industry of the district, Mandya Sugar Factory, popularly known as ‘MySUGAR,’ said to be the first of its kind in Asia, seems…
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