Mandya: The woes of the nearly century old State-owned Mysore Sugars Company limited or MySugar factory in Mandya, seems to be never ending as in a latest incident, the factory has reportedly been cheated of Rs. 2 crore by a labour contractor who had promised sugarcane cutting by bringing labourers from Vijayapura and Ballari districts.
Speaking at ‘Save MySugar’ event organised here on Friday, ADC Dr. H.L. Nagaraju, who is also the MySugar MD, said that a Maistry had brought labourers from Vijayapura and Ballari for sugarcane cutting. Subsequently, he (Nagaraju) paid Rs. 2 crore to the Maistry as advance believing his promise that sugarcane would be cut for factory supplies. But now, no labourer is engaged in sugarcane cutting and even the Maistry, who was paid money, has gone missing & as such it has become difficult to recover the money paid to him, the ADC rued.
