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      All Vehicles in India should Run on Ethanol : Nitin Gadkari

      Nitin Gadkari said All Vehicles in India should Run on Ethanol while inaugurating a National Highway Project totalling a length of 527 kilometer costing Rs 4075 crore.

      Nitin Gadkari, Union Road and Transport Minister Said :

      “All vehicles in the country should run on 100% ethanol and Centre is ready to enter into Ethanol Purchase Agreement for five years from ethanol producers to boost ethanol production”.

      Nitin Gadkari said ethanol production could save the country’s fue. “There is a need to run vehicles on electricity and ethanol on the lines of Brazil”.

      Nitin Gadkari, Union Road and Transport Minister added:

      “Our country produced 4.65 billion litres of ethanol last year and we need 16.5 billion litres of ethanol. So the Central Government will take up as much ethanol as is produce. Ethanol is a better and cheaper green fuel than petrol”.

      “We are importing crude oil and natural gas worth Rs 12 lakh crores. India has already allowed ethanol pumps. So, all sugar mills should start ethanol pumps in their area”, the Minister said. “India needs 240 lakh tonnes of sugar, while last year 310 lakh tonnes of sugar was produce. This additional sugar of 70 lakh tonnes should be convert into ethanol”.

      Nitin Gadkari also said that the Government of India is ready to enter into an Ethanol Purchase Agreement for five years, like the power purchase agreement.

      Nitin Gadkari Said :

      “If ethanol is produce in the near future, imports will come down and farmers will earn Rs 5 lakh crore out of Rs 12 lakh crore being spent for import of crude oil. Sugarcane will fetch good prices and farmers will no longer remain poor”.

      The Central Government has given permission to produce ethanol not only from sugarcane but also from rice, maize and other grains, informed the Minister.

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      Nitin Gadkari said the Centre is ready to set up logistics parks, industrial clusters and transport towns wherever land is provide by the state government for ethanol production.

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