UP to partner Centre for ethanol blending in fuel to cut oil import bill

The state, along with Maharashtra, clocks 9-10% of blending due to higher cane availability

Uttar Pradesh, the country’s top sugarcane producer, has offered to partner the central government over its ambitious roadmap of augmenting ethanol blending in fuel.

UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who met union petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi yesterday, said the state was ready to cooperate with the Centre to promote ethanol blending in fuel to save foreign exchange and cut oil import bill.

Major states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab-Haryana and Karnataka have clocked more than 8.5 per cent ethanol blending, with Maharashtra and UP having achieved nine per cent or even more, owing to the