Centre will hike ethanol-petrol blending target to more than 20%
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...
