{"id":372119,"date":"2020-09-05T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T05:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372119"},"modified":"2020-09-05T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T06:01:11","slug":"gadkari-exhorts-automakers-to-build-flex-engine-vehicles-to-promote-alternative-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gadkari-exhorts-automakers-to-build-flex-engine-vehicles-to-promote-alternative-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari exhorts automakers to build flex-engine vehicles to promote alternative fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s \u2018Aatmanirbhar Bharat\u2019 drive. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment 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,\u201d Road transport minister Gadkari said addressing SIAM\u2019s 60th annual convention 2020 &#8211; \u2018Rebuilding the Nation, Responsibly\u2019 through video conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s \u2018Aatmanirbhar Bharat\u2019 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. \u201cGovernment has taken a decision that the companies with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372119","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}