In a bid to promote ethanol production in the state, the Manohar Lal Khattar led Haryana Government has introduced a separate licence for distilleries for the production of ethanol only.
The State Government has released the Punjab Distillery (Haryana Second Amendment) Rules, 2021, introducing two separate categories of licences to push for ethanol production in Haryana.Earlier, only a D-2 licence was issued for setting up a distillery in the state. Now, a D-2A licence will be issued for a new standalone separate ethanol plant installed within existing licensed premises of D-2 licence, provided there should be no common boiler, turbine, distillation process among similar facilities. A separate D-2B licence has also been introduced for a distillery only for production of ethanol.
