Provide Of Ethanol-Blended Petrol Jumps Extra Than 4-Fold In 4 Years | Mobility Information

New Delhi: The ethanol-blended petrol equipped on the shops of the general public sector oil firms resembling Indian Oil and Bharat Petroleum has shot up from 173 crore litres in Ethanol Provide Yr (November-October) 2019-20 to greater than 700 crore litres in Ethanol Provide Yr (ESY) 2023-24, whereas there has additionally been a corresponding enhance in mixing proportion from 5 per cent in ESY 2019-20 to roughly 14.6 per cent in ESY 2023-24, the Parliament was knowledgeable on Monday. 

Additional, for the continued ESY 2024-25, as of June 30, 2025, a complete of 661.06 crore litres of ethanol has been blended with petrol, reaching a mixing proportion of 18.93 per cent, Minister of State for Petroleum and Pure Fuel Suresh Gopi advised the Rajya Sabha in a written reply to a query.

Throughout the month of June 2025, ethanol mixing of 19.92 per cent has been achieved. All shops of Public Sector Oil Advertising and marketing Firms throughout the nation, having petrol promoting services, dispense E20 petrol, the minister added.

Highlighting India’s achievements within the biofuels sector, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh highlighted that almost 20 per cent ethanol mixing has been achieved in 2025, a major rise from 1.53 per cent in 2014. This accomplishment has resulted in Rs 1.4 lakh crore in overseas change financial savings, substitution of 238 lakh metric tonnes of crude oil, a discount of 717 lakh metric tonnes in CO2 emissions, and direct funds of Rs 1.21 lakh crore to farmers.

Farmers have gained because the sugar mills which can be additionally producing ethanol can now afford to pay larger costs for sugarcane and clear pending dues in time. Inspired by the efficiency, the federal government determined to advance the goal of 20 per cent ethanol mixing in petrol from 2030 to ESY 2025-26.

With a purpose to obtain the 20 per cent ethanol mixing goal by ESY 2025-26, the federal government has taken a number of measures which embrace an in depth Roadmap for Ethanol Mixing in India, enlargement of feedstock for the manufacturing of ethanol, remunerative worth for procurement of ethanol beneath the EBP Programme, decreasing of the GST fee to five per cent on ethanol for EBP Programme, and an modification within the Industries (Improvement & Regulation) Act totally free motion of ethanol throughout states for mixing.

An curiosity subvention scheme for enhancement and augmentation of ethanol manufacturing capability within the nation; common floating of Expression of Curiosity (EoI) by Public Sector oil advertising firms for procurement of ethanol has additionally been undertaken.