Apart from sugar this Greenfield integrated sugar mill, named as Kamlapur Sugar Refinery Limited, will also manufacture 240 kilo litres of ethanol per day and co-generate 50 MW of power. This, incidentally, will be the first sugar mill of its kind in the country.

Pawar said Bihar was once the leading producer of sugar in the country. But in the past several decades many of them got sick and had to be shut down. Three of these mills are in East Champaran. Although several measures were taken to revive the sick sugar mills, the efforts failed to yield any result.

The Union agriculture minister assured farmers that like rabi crops, paddy producers would soon get remunerations which would be unprecedented.

The chairman of the Ruia Groups, Pawan Kumar Ruia, assured that the work to instal the sugar unit would start before August 1, 2008, and the entire unit would be set up by October 2009. The Ruia Group has acquired 100 acres of land from farmers and efforts are in the final stage to purchase another 85 acres at Shariatpur.

Ruia said that his dream of setting up a unit in Bihar, which incidentally is his birth place, has come true. He said that this would be the biggest sugar mill in the country and first of its kind.