The Central Government has decided to make available quantity of 104 lakh tons of sugar, as non-levy quota for open market sale, for the 6 months of April, 2013 to September, 2013, as per the details given below: –
| Particulars | Quantity in lakhtons |
| Normal quota | 104.00 |
The sale and delivery/dispatch period for the above quota would be from 1st April. 2013 and upto 3oth September, 2013, without any inter-month restrictions.
The non-levy quota would be apportioned and released only among those sugar mills which have submitted online production returns at the time of release Mill wise quota apportionment would discount the entire non-levy quota released for the period of October, 2012 and upto March, 2013 and any quantity left unsold would not be not be available for sale during the period of April, 2013 to September, 2013.
There would be no conversion of unsold non-levy quota into levy quota during the period of current release, i.e. April to September, 2013.
Further, Government has also released, during this month, 3.69 lakh MT of levy sugar for meeting requirements of Public Distribution System for the months of April May, 2013.
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