{"id":7219,"date":"2022-11-03T06:09:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T00:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:25:44","slug":"ethanol-blended-petrol-ebp-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ethanol-blended-petrol-ebp-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ethanol Blending Programme (EBP) seeks to achieve blending of Ethanol with motor sprit with a view to reducing pollution, conserve foreign exchange and increase value addition in the sugar industry enabling them to clear cane price arrears of farmers.<\/li>\n<li>The EBP programme was launched by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in 2003, to promote the use of alternative and environment friendly fuels.<\/li>\n<li>Under this programme, starting with 5% blending, the government later increased the target of 10% ethanol blending by 2022.<\/li>\n<li>India&#8217;s goal is to grow this ratio to 20% by 2030, but when the NITI Aayog released the\u00a0ethanol roadmap in 2021, that deadline was advanced to 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Cabinet-approves-mechanism-for-ethanol-procurement-by-public-sector-oil-marketing-companies-under-Ethanol-Blended-Petrol-programme&amp;id=450292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPB Programme is an important government programme having an impact on agriculture, environment, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}