Ethanol-blended petrol would be made available in entire state by June 30, announced Ram Naik, the union minister of petroleum, here. Already ethanol-blended petrol has been launched in several parts of Karnataka on May 9.
As against the scheduled date of January 1, 2003, ethanol- blended petrol could not be launched, as the sugar industry was not in a position to supply anhydrous ethanol, the minister explained.
Now the problem is over as five sugar factories--Ugar Sugar, Samsung Distillery, Renuka Sugar, Godavari Sugar and Chamunda Sugar-- have created capacity of producing 36,000 KL anhydrous ethanol per year, he added.
In Karnataka 5kg cylinders have been introduced in the districts of Hassan, Coorg and Mysore. They will shortly be introduced in Belgaum, Bijapur and Gulbarga districts.
IOC is setting up a depot at Gulbarga at a cost of Rs 25 crore, to be commissioned by June2003. It is also setting up a LPG Bottling Plant at Shimoga at a cost of Rs 28.5 crore, to be completed by October.
While HPCL is setting up two terminals at Hassan and Gulbarga at a cost of Rs 61 crore, which will be operational by June 2003.
