Bengaluru Skill Summit 2025 | Fair and Remunerative Price

Bengaluru Skill Summit 2025

News-

• The Bengaluru Skill Summit 2025 was held from November 4 to 6, 2025.
• Theme : “Workforce 2030: Scale, Systems, and Synergy.”

Organizers and Partners

• The summit was organized by the Government of Karnataka through the Skill Development Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Department, along with the Karnataka Skill Development Corporation, Department of Agriculture, and Karnataka Digital Economy Mission.

Objectives and Vision

• to strengthen institutions, build a robust ecosystem for traditional and emerging skills, improve the quality and inclusivity of skilling, and foster innovation and global workforce mobility.
• Karnataka aims to be the “Skill Gateway to the World” by aligning with international certification standards and vocational education frameworks.

Fair and Remunerative Price

News –

• CM writes to PM seeking meet to address FRP concerns

Sugar Production in India

• India became the world’s top sugar producer in 2021-2022, surpassing Brazil.
• Location of Sugar Industry in India: Sugar industry is broadly distributed over two major areas of production:

1. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana and Punjab in the north and
2. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in the south.

Sugarcane – Uses

• It belongs to the bamboo family of plants and is indigenous to India.
• About two-third of the total sugarcane produced in India is consumed for making gur and khandsari and only one-third of it goes to sugar factories.
• It also provides raw material for manufacturing alcohol.
• Bagasse, the crushed cane residue, can be more beneficially used for manufacturing paper.
• Ethanol production – It is also an efficient substitute for petroleum products and a host of other chemical products.
• India has become the 3rd largest country in the world in ethanol production after the USA and Brazil.

Conditions for growth

• Crop duration: 10-15 months, and even 18 months to mature, depending upon geographical conditions.
• Soil: Sugarcane can tolerate any kind of soil that can retain moisture. Examples – loams, clayey, black cotton soil, brown or reddish loam and laterites.
• It should be rich in nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus.
• Climate: Hot and Humid (21-27 °C of temperature and 75-150 cm of rainfall).

Government steps

Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane

• Recommended by – Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP)
• Objective – to assure margins on account of profit and risk to farmers, irrespective of the fact whether sugar mills generate profit or not.