New Delhi, February 26, 2025.
India is looking to increase its target of blending ethanol with petrol to more than 20%, news agency PTI quoted the Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep S Puri as saying at the ongoing ‘Advantage Assam 2.0 Investment and Infrastructure summit’ in Guwahati. The petroleum minister added that the Centre has formed a committee under the NITI Aayog on this matter.
Throwing more light on the matter, Puri said that the blending status currently stood at 19.6%. This further strengthened the fact that the government was on course to achieving the 20% blending target by 2025.
Ethanol blending is an ambitious project of the government of India to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles in the country. Albeit, this project was started way back in 2001, but it gathered pace only recently. India had set an ambitious target of blending 20% ethanol with petrol by 2025 end (which she has nearly realised before deadline.)
According to Puri, the blending stood at just 1.5% back in 2014, when, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government had taken over.
At ‘Advantage Assam 2.0 Investment and Infrastructure summit’ the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that India has laid an ambitious vision to transition to green energy and is achieving its goals much ahead of time.
