Mysore/Mysuru: A day after the Government leased out the decades-old Pandavapura Sugar Factory, one of the oldest Sugar factories in the State to Bagalkot-based Nirani Sugars, Opposition leader and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has urged the Government not to privatise the prestigious State-run MySugar Factory at Mandya and to retain it under Government control.
In a letter written to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Saturday, Siddharamaiah said that MySugar factory has 14,046 share-holders, most of whom are farmers. The Sugar Factory has a crushing capacity of 5,000 Metric Tonnes per day and has a co-generation power plant, ethanol and distillery units and also facilities for producing other by-products.
