{"id":644179,"date":"2025-08-25T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644179"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:48:28","slug":"what-is-union-govts-ethanol-blending-programme-10-things-to-know-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/what-is-union-govts-ethanol-blending-programme-10-things-to-know-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Union govt&#8217;s ethanol blending programme; 10 things to know about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Union Government&#8217;s Ethanol Blending Programme (EBP), which mandates the sale of petrol blended with 20% ethanol (E20).<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner, an Advocate named Akshay Malhotra, argued that eliminating the option of ethanol-free petrol (E0) altogether, violates the fundamental rights of millions of vehicle owners whose vehicles are not compatible with the higher ethanol blend, according to a report by Livelaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Union Government&#8217;s Ethanol Blending Programme (EBP), which mandates the sale of petrol blended with 20% ethanol (E20). The petitioner, an Advocate named Akshay Malhotra, argued that eliminating the option of ethanol-free petrol (E0) altogether, violates the fundamental rights of millions of vehicle owners whose vehicles are not compatible with the higher ethanol blend, according to a report by Livelaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644179","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}