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EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (ii)

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NEW DELHI, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 38, 1970/ASVINA 6, 1892

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed

as a separate compilation.

MINISTRY OF FOOD, AGRICULTURE, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND

COOPERATION

(Department of Food)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 28th September 1970

S.O. 3180.—Whereas the Central Government is of opinion that the working

of the sugar industry, and the various problems relating thereto require a detailed

and comprehensive examination, particularly in the context of the demand for

nationalisation of the said industry;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the

Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 (60 of 1952), the Central Government hereby

appoints a Commission of Inquiry consisting of the following person, namely:—

Chairman

1. Shri Deep Narain Sinha,

retired

Chief

Justice of the Calcutta High

Court.

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Members

2. Shri J. C. Dikshit, General

Secretary,

Indian

National Trade Union

Congress, U.P. Branch.

3. Shrl B. N. Khosla, Industrial Consultant, Greater Kailash, New Delhi.

4. Dr. Dharam Narain, Chairman, Agricultural Prices Commission.

Member (ex-offlcio)

8, Director, National Sugar Institute, Kanpur.

Members

6. Shrl Vaeantrao Patil, Chairman, Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank.

7. Shri Fazulur Rehaman, M.L.C. Bihar.

8. Lala Bansi Dhar, Vice-President, Indian Sugar Mills Association.

9. Shri A. C. fiose, retired Joint Secretary to the Government of India, ,

Department of Company Affairs.

Member-Secretary

10- Shri R. H. Chisti, I.A.S. (Retired) 4, Secretariat Bungalow, Mall Avenus,

Lucknow

2. The Chairman and the Secretary shall be whole-time members and the

other members shall be part-time members of the Commission.

3. The terms of reference to the Commission shall be as follows:—

(I) to study the working of the sugar industry in India in all its aspects,

with particular reference to its performance during the last ten

years and the condition of the plant and machinery in different sugar

mills;

(ii) to Indentify the inadequacies in the performance of the sugar Industry

and the causes thereof;

(Hi) to study In detail the causes for the existence of a large number of

sick sugar mills;

(iv) to study the progress and the working of sugar mills In the co-operative

sector;

(v) to make suggestions, in the light of such studies, for a rational and

efficient organisation of the sugar Industry In different parts of the

country, In order to Improve Its working and performance, and to

suggest measures for solving the problem of sick sugar mills, in the

context of the demand for nationalisation of the sugar industry;

(vl) to study the relationship between sugarcane suppliers and the owners

of sugar mills, with particular reference to the supply of cane and

the payment of cane price and to make suggestions for improvement

In the present law? and practices in this behalf;

(vil) to study the problem of large fluctuations in sugarcane production and

its processing into gur, khandsari and sugar and to make suggestions

for securing stable conditions with a view to achieving a balanced

development in these fields; and

(viii) in the light of the foregoing studies, to suggest a blue-print for the

development of the sugar and allied industries over a period of the

next ten to fifteen years.

4. The Headquarters of the Commission shall be in New Delhi.

5. The Commission shall hold Its inquiry and submit its report to the Central

Government by the 31st August, 1971. It may, if it deems fit, submit an interim

ieport(s) on any specific problem(s).

[No. F. 12-2/69-Sugar.]

K. P. MATHRANI, Secy.