PARUL CHANDRA
NEW DELHI

After what seems a failed experiment of Tughlaqian proportions that saw the Indian railways spending several lakhs on planting crores of jatropha trees along its railway tracks, the ministry appears to have junked jatropha for producing bio-fuel.

Ajay Modi / New Delhi March 25, 2010, 1:21 IST

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Bengaluru, March 14: A chemical engineer from the city is on a mission to promote the use of green energy. Avinash Narayanaswamy, chemical engineer and postgraduate in sustainable energy technology from the University of Twente in Netherlands, will drive 17,000 km from London to Mongolia in a vehicle run entirely on bio-fuel derived out of waste vegetable oil.

'A quantum of 135 million litre ethanol is being produced from six sugar factories of the State annually. This is being used with petrol as a fuel. There is a target of increasing the use of ethenal to 10 per cent in the State by the end of next year,' said State Bio-fuel Task Force President Y B Ramakrishna.

ETHANOL prices paid to producers in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Committing scarce resources like water, land is a bad idea

A young scientist, Dhrubatara Mitra, selected by the Centre

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to expedite the completion of alternate projects based on non-conventional energy sources.

Minister of State for Science and Technology Ramesh Majhi reviewed the situation at a highlevel meeting today.

The State Government has approved 14 biomass power plants for generation of 173 MW power.

Part of Indo-Canada co-operation programme.

Shubhra Tandon

India will soon start research on production of biofuels for the aviation industry.