IANS | 27 Dec, 2022
The Central government plans to achieve 12 per cent ethanol blending with petrol in 2022-23.
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officials from the food and public distribution as well as petroleum
ministries held a meeting on Monday to review the progress of the
target.
Secretaries from both the ministries and oil marketing
companies and chairman of Food Corporation of India (FCI) were also
present in the meeting.
Ethanol industry showed confidence to supply sufficient ethanol to meet the targets, sources said.
Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, or alcohol) is a biofuel. It is naturally made by the fermentation of sugar.
In
India, it is largely derived while extracting sugar from sugarcane.
However, other organic matter like food grains can also be used for its
production.
The government has launched the Ethanol Blended
Petrol (EBP) programme to mix this biofuel with petrol to reduce the
consumption of fossil fuel.
