LUCKNOW: In a boost the sugar industry in the state, the Yogi Adityanath government is planning to revive the Pipraich and Munderva sugar mills located in Goarkhpur and Basti, respectively. A team of officials from the sugar development department would inspect the site of the two mills on May 5 and 6.

Cane commissioner Vipin Dwivedi said that the department would explore the possibility of setting up a power plant and a distillery unit in the two mills which have remained closed for years. Both the mills were set up by the UP sugar corporation, which currently owns just one mill in Muzaffarnagar.