When The Sunday Express visited the distillery, it was business as usual with truckloads of liquor consignments rolling out of Naraingarh. When questioned about the objection raised by the HSPCB, Ashok Jain said, “The Ministry of Environment has cleared our expansion to 75 KLPD and it is up to the HSPCB to give us the final authorization. But we will switch to molasses-based production only when it becomes commercially viable for us. It is the Centre that has given us the option of doing so.”
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