Why Government Focusing On Ethanol As A Fuel?

 

 

At a time when fuel prices are rising virtually every day and concern for the environment has become widespread, mixing ethanol in auto fuel can result in savings and also protect against climate change: a win-win situation. Which is why the Centre is keen to have a fifth of all petrol sold in the country to be ethanol by 2025 . Government of India (GOI) is ready to enter into an Ethanol Purchase Agreement for five years as the power purchase agreement. Recently, Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari, inaugurated National Highway project works totalling a length of 527 km, worth Rs 4,075 crore at Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. Stressing the importance of converting sugar into ethanol. Ethanol fuels new hope for farmers also . If ethanol production is increased in the near future, imports will come down and farmers will earn Rs five lakh crore out of Rs 12 lakh crore being spent for import of crude oil. Last year ,Our country produced 4.65 billion litres of ethanol and we need 16.5 billion litres of ethanol. Ethanol is a better and cheaper green fuel than petrol. All vehicles in the country should run on 100 per cent ethanol.