{"id":281986,"date":"2019-07-12T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281986"},"modified":"2019-07-12T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T11:37:54","slug":"will-ask-petroleum-ministry-to-allow-setting-up-of-ethanol-pumps-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-ask-petroleum-ministry-to-allow-setting-up-of-ethanol-pumps-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Will ask petroleum ministry to allow setting up of ethanol pumps: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highways minister Nitin Gadkari will ask the petroleum ministry to set up ethanol pumps in the country in a bid to make India&#8217;s ethanol economy Rs 2 lakh crore in size. <\/p>\n<p>The move will open up opportunities for sugarcane farmers in the country and create jobs in the agriculture sector, Gadkari said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new initiative will reduce our imports, create jobs. There will be a good market for exports also,&#8221; Gadkari said. <\/p>\n<p>Gadkari, who is also the minister of micro small and medium enterprises, was speaking at the launch of TVS&#8217;s ethanol based motorcycle here on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Gadkari said that the Rs. 7 lakh crore fuel import bill of the country will come down significantly with the help of mass use of bio-fuel. <\/p>\n<p>He said that so far the petroleum ministry was not willing to allow setting up of petrol pumps because automobile manufacturers were not using ethanol as fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will immediately move the note to petroleum ministry now, and take Niti Aayog on board for this,&#8221; Gadkari said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highways minister Nitin Gadkari will ask the petroleum ministry to set up ethanol pumps in the country in a bid to make India&#8217;s ethanol economy Rs 2 lakh crore in size. The move will open up opportunities for sugarcane farmers in the country and create jobs in the agriculture sector, Gadkari said. &#8220;This new initiative will reduce our imports, create jobs. There will be a good market for exports also,&#8221; Gadkari said. Gadkari, who is also the minister of micro small and medium enterprises, was speaking at the launch of TVS&#8217;s ethanol based motorcycle here on Friday. Gadkari said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}