Gadkari exhorts automakers to build flex-engine vehicles to promote alternative fuel

Promising all support to the automobile industry, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday encouraged automakers to introduce flex-fuel engines in India on a large scale to promote alternative fuel in alignment with the Government’s ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ drive.

To encourage alternative fuel, the Government has decided to allow automakers meeting certain criteria to set up own fuel pumps, provided they sell green fuel too, Gadkari said, asserting that carmakers could easily introduce flex engines on par with Brazil, the US and Canada if they could leapfrog from BS-IV norms to BS-VI.

“Government has taken a decision that the companies with a worth of more than Rs 250 crore can start their own petrol/diesels pumps but the condition is that they should have alternative fuel pumps also,” Road transport minister Gadkari said addressing SIAM’s 60th annual convention 2020 – ‘Rebuilding the Nation, Responsibly’ through video conference.