{"id":392464,"date":"2020-12-31T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=392464"},"modified":"2020-12-31T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T03:54:42","slug":"govt-extends-soft-loans-for-ethanol-to-non-sugarcane-based-distilleries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-extends-soft-loans-for-ethanol-to-non-sugarcane-based-distilleries\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt extends soft-loans for ethanol to non-sugarcane-based distilleries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To meet the ambitious target of 20 per cent ethanol blending with petrol by 2030 from less than 10 per cent currently, the Union Cabinet today extended the soft loan scheme for capacity expansion to distilleries that use crops other than sugarcane as their feedstock that includes rice, maize, sorghum, wheat, barley, corn and sugar beet. <\/p>\n<p>So far, the soft loan scheme for capacity expansion was available for integrated and standalone distilleries that produced ethanol only from sugarcane. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total cost to exchequer due to this extension will be around Rs 4,573 crore,\u201d Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told reporters after the meeting of the cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To meet the ambitious target of 20 per cent ethanol blending with petrol by 2030 from less than 10 per cent currently, the Union Cabinet today extended the soft loan scheme for capacity expansion to distilleries that use crops other than sugarcane as their feedstock that includes rice, maize, sorghum, wheat, barley, corn and sugar beet. So far, the soft loan scheme for capacity expansion was available for integrated and standalone distilleries that produced ethanol only from sugarcane. \u201cThe total cost to exchequer due to this extension will be around Rs 4,573 crore,\u201d Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told reporters after [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392464","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=392464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}