Bengal received 15 proposals for manufacturing biofuel: Chief secy
The West Bengal government on Wednesday said it has received around 15 proposals for manufacturing biofuel, entailing an investment of Rs 2,666 crore.
Chief Secretary H K Dwivedi said the state is a big producer of rice, and the broken form of it would be used for manufacture of ethanol, which will be mixed with petrol and diesel.
“Since it is a green fuel, we are making it mandatory to blend ethanol with petrol and diesel. After introducing the ethanol production promotion policy, within a very short span of time we have received 15 proposals to manufacture ethanol.
The total investment is to the tune of Rs 2,666 crore with direct employment potential of 4,000,” Dwivedi told reporters after the first meeting of the Empowered Group on Industry.
