 "Sugar mills")
The Union Cabinet is likely to discuss a proposal on Wednesday for providing an additional Rs 6000-crore soft loan to sugar mills to increase their ethanol production capacities under an incentive scheme. The proposal may include non-molasses-based distilleries.
Under the scheme, the government had last year announced a soft loan of Rs 4,400 crore, and provided an interest subvention of Rs 1,332 crore to the sugar mills over a period of five years, including a moratorium of one year.
However, the food ministry had received 256 applications, seeking soft loans totalling Rs 12,000 crore.
Of this, 114 applications, seeking loan amounts
