At the Save the Soil movement event, the Prime Minister said that the Government of India has <\/span>achieved the target of 10% ethanol blending in petrol five months ahead of schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n Save Soil Movement is a global movement to increase awareness about deteriorating soil health and to bring about a conscious response to improve it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The movement was started by Sadhguru in March 2022, who embarked on a 100-day motorcycle journey passing through 27 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n The Government of India promotes the Ethanol Blended Petrol(EBP) Programme<\/a> with the aim to enhance India\u2019s energy security, reduce import dependency on fuel, save foreign exchange, address environmental issues and give a boost to the domestic agriculture sector.<\/span><\/p>\n The ‘National Policy on Biofuels\u2019<\/a> notified by the Government in 2018 envisaged an indicative target of 20% ethanol blending in petrol by the year 2030. <\/span>However, due to various interventions made by the Government since 2014, the target of 20% ethanol blending was advanced from 2030 to 2025-26.<\/span><\/p>\n A \u201cRoadmap for Ethanol Blending in India 2020-25\u201d was also released by the Prime Minister in 2021. This lays out a detailed pathway for achieving 20% ethanol blending. This roadmap also mentioned an intermediate milestone of 10% blending to be achieved by November 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n However, due to the coordinated efforts of the Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) the target of 10% blending under the programme has been achieved <\/span>five months ahead of schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n There are three clear benefits of achieving this goal: 1)<\/strong> It has led to a reduction of 27 lakh tonnes of carbon emission; 2)<\/strong> It has saved foreign exchange worth \u20b941,000 crore and 3)<\/strong> Farmers of the country have earned \u20b940,600 crore in the last eight years due to increase in ethanol blending.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>India has achieved the target of 10% ethanol blending ahead of schedule<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Livemint <\/b>on 6th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? At the Save the Soil movement event, the Prime Minister said that the Government of India has achieved the target of 10% ethanol blending in petrol five months ahead of schedule. What is the Save Soil Movement? Save Soil Movement is a global movement to increase awareness about deteriorating soil health… Continue reading India has achieved the target of 10% ethanol blending ahead of schedule<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-188949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702021455},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Save<\/b> Soil Movement?<\/b><\/h5>\n
The timeline of India’s Ethanol Blended Petrol Programme<\/strong><\/h5>\n
What are the benefits of achieving this goal?<\/b><\/h5>\n