(a) Wastage limits on molasses shall be as follows:-
(i) When the Sugar factory and the distillery are managed by the associate companies and are situated nearby, there shall not be any wastage above 0.5 percent.
(ii) In all other cases, the maximum storage wastage shall not exceed 0.5 percent and the transit waste of all grades of molasses transported to the destination, by road or by train or by both or by any other modes of transport shall not exceed 0.5 percent.
1 [Provided that the Government, if it is expedient to do so, may write off losses of molasses beyond the permissible limit in transit or in storage.]
1. Proviso added by G.O.Ms.No.249, P&E(XIII)Dept, dated the 1st December 1999.
(b) Review of such wastages shall be made by the Commissioner at least once in three months.