SME Times News Bureau | 27 Jan, 2012

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has constituted an experts panel on the sugar sector, which is among the last remaining industries in India still under government control. The panel will be headed by former Reserve Bank governor C. Rangarajan.

"The committee will look into all issues relating to de-regulation of the sugar sector and it has been requested to complete its task as early as possible and give its recommendations to the prime minister," an official statement said Friday.

Apart from the secretaries overseeing the ministries of food, public distribution system, and agriculture, the other members include Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu, noted farm sector economist Ashok Gulati and former agriculture secretary Nand Kumar.

The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Committee Secretary K.P. Krishnan is the convenor.