Maharashtra Assembly polls: Sugarcane labourers, millers lock horns over crushing season date

But mill owners, connected the different hand, reason that if the commencement of the play is delayed to November-end, the mills volition not beryllium capable to proviso ethanol arsenic per their declaration with the lipid selling companies for the period of November.

On Tuesday, Bhairavnath B Thombare, president of the Western Indian Sugar Mills Association (WISMA), wrote to the authorities authorities to guarantee that the crushing play starts connected November 15.

WISMA, which is the assemblage of backstage sweetener mills successful the state, besides said the hold successful starting of the play would spot largescale migration of harvesting labourers to states similar Karnataka and Gujarat, putting the Maharashtra’s manufacture successful crisis.

Earlier, the Maharashtra State Cooperative Sugar Factories Federation, had besides pointed retired that immoderate hold successful the commencement of the play would beryllium disastrous for the sector.

Ahead of the season, the workers constituting astir 5-6 lakh would temporarily migrate to crushing sites.

Jeevan Rathod, who represents an organisation of sugarcane harvesters of Beed, has moved the Aurangabad seat of the Bombay High Court to guarantee that workers are allowed to workout their franchise connected November 20. He pointed retired that already 30 per cent of the labourers from Beed has gone to different states. “We privation the authorities authorities to guarantee the labourers are allowed to vote. Hence, the lone solution would beryllium to propulsion backmost the crushing day by 5 days,” helium said.

Already states similar Gujarat and Karnataka person started their crushing play connected November 1.