Chandigarh, April 20:
The Punjab Government has re appointed ex-Lok Sabha MP Mr. Amrik Singh Aliwal as the Chairman of Sugarfed. The Cooperation Department has issued a notification in this regard.
Congratulating the newly appointed Chairman, the Cooperation Minister S. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said that the Cooperation Department is directly connected to the farming sector of Punjab and strenuous efforts are being made by the State Government to strengthen the varied institutions of the cooperation department.
The minister said that Mr. Aliwal is a grassroots leader who hails from a farming family which explains why his experience would come in handy in taking the institution of Sugarfed forward. He also said that it is high time that the sugarcane farming is bolstered in order to take the farming community out of the traditional wheat-paddy crop cycle.
Divulging further, the minister said that during the earlier tenure of Aliwal, Bhogpur Sugar Mill was expanded while as part of futuristic endeavours, new mills are being set up at Batala and Gurdaspur besides a State of the art sugarcane research centre at Kalanaur.
It is worth mentioning that Mr. Amrik Singh Aliwal started his political innings as the Sarpanch of Village Aliwal which falls in District Ludhiana and remained the Lok Sabha Member for 2 terms. He also remained the Chairman of Punjab Agro and became the Chairman of Sugarfed for the first time in 2019.
Thanking the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and S. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa for his appointment, Mr. Aliwal assured that he would do full justice to the responsibility assigned to him and would leave no stone unturned to come upto the high expectations from him.
