The Punjab Government has appointed senior congress leader and ex-Lok Sabha MP Mr. Amrik Singh Aliwal as the Chairman of Sugarfed.The Cooperation Department has issued a notification in this regard.Congratulating the newly appointed Chairman, the Cooperation Minister S. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said that the Cooperation Department is directly connected to the farming sector of Punjab and strenuous efforts are being made by the State Government to strengthen the varied institutions of the cooperation department.The minister said that Mr. Aliwal is a grassroots leader who hails from a farming family which explains why his experience would come in handy in taking the institution of Sugarfed forward. He also said that it is high time that the sugarcane farming is bolstered in order to take the farming community out of the traditional wheat-paddy crop cycle. He further added that since quite sometime, wholehearted efforts are being made in the direction of the modernization of the cooperative sugar mills of Punjab and with the coming at the helm of Mr. Aliwal, these plans would be implemented with further gusto.It is worthmentioning that Mr. Amrik Singh Aliwal started his political innings as the Sarpanch of Village Aliwal which falls in District Ludhiana and remained the Lok Sabha Member for 2 terms. He also remained the Chairman of Punjab Agro. Thanking the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and S. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa for his appointment, Mr. Aliwal assured that he would do full justice to the responsibility assigned to him and would leave no stone unturned to come upto the high expectations from him.