To check spiralling price of sugar which has crossed Rs 40 per kg, the government on Thursday imposed stock limits on sugar mills during the festival season till October-end. The decision to impose stock limit on millers would boost availability of sugar in the open market and help control the price rise. "It has been decided to impose stock limit on sugar stock to be held by sugar mills at the end of September and October, 2016," Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan tweeted. This is the first time the government has imposed curbs on the Rs 80,000-crore sugar sector ever since it was partially decontrolled in 2013. As per the decision, mills should not, at the end of September, hold more than 37 per cent of their total sugar available with them during the entire 2015-16 marketing year. At the end of October, the sugar stock should not be more than 24 per cent of the total supply. Sugar marketing year runs from October to September.