Allow the refineries in Assam to go ahead with 20 per cent ethanol blending: Himanta Biswa Sarma

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, in his push for greener future and cut carbon emission, requested Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri to allow the refineries in Assam to go ahead with 20 per cent ethanol blending in their plants.

Putting forward his requests at a one-day investors’ meet on exploration and production and investment opportunities in North Eastern Region, Sarma said that if the refineries of the state are allowed to do the ethanol blending in their own plants, the proposition becomes cost effective and the state will be able to meet its own demands of green fuel from its own yard.