India, May 28 -- In what would bring relief to owners of sugar factories, Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah on Wednesday assured a Maharashtra delegation led by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, that the Centre would provide relief to them by restructuring outstanding loans taken for expansion, hike the minimum support price (MSP) of sugar from the existing Rs.31 per kg and increase the state's quota for ethanol procurement from sugar factories.

Additionally, in response to protests by onion farmers across the state over fair prices for their produce, over the last two months, Shah assured the delegation that the state and Centre would procure 10 lakh tonne of the produce from the farmers and configure the subsidy of Rs.1,500...