Modi inaugurates 550-tonne capacity Bio-CNG plant in Indore

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the government is making efforts to free thousands of acres of land in the country’s urban areas from piles of garbage, which was being dumped there for decades, and convert these places into green zones in the next couple of years.

He said the garbage disposal capacity of the urban areas in the country has increased by four times since 2014.

Batting for the use of bio-fuels to reduce India’s dependence on other countries for petroleum products, he said that ethanol blending in petrol, which used to be only about two per cent eight years back, has now grown to around eight per cent.