All retail outlets of Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) across the mainland of India, having petrol selling facilities, are dispending E20 petrol.
In a significant step toward promoting cleaner fuel and reducing dependence on fossil fuels, all retail outlets of Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) across mainland India with petrol selling facilities are now dispensing E20 petrol.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Suresh Gopi, informed the Rajya Sabha about public sector OMCs dispensing E20 petrol.
While responding to a question, he said, “All retail outlets of Public Sector OMCs across the mainland of the country, having petrol selling facilities, dispense E20 petrol.”
The Government has been promoting blending of ethanol in petrol under the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme wherein Public Sector OMCs sell ethanol blended with petrol.
The Government, since 2014, has taken several steps to increase ethanol production in India, which inter alia includes expansion of feedstock for ethanol production, administered price mechanism for ethanol procurement under the EBP Programme, lowered GST rate to 5% for ethanol for EBP Programme, introduction of various Ethanol Interest Subvention Schemes (EISS) during 2018-22, a dedicated subvention scheme for Cooperative Sugar Mills to convert existing sugarcane-based distilleries into multi-feedstock plants for ethanol production from molasses as well as grains, Long Term Offtake Agreements (LTOAs) between OMCs and Dedicated Ethanol Plants, multimodal transportation of ethanol to enhance availability of ethanol and increasing ethanol storage capacity along with other allied infrastructure for handling of higher blends of ethanol.
In India, OMCs achieved the target of 10% Ethanol blending in petrol in June 2022 i.e. five months ahead of the target during ESY 2021-22, 12.06% in ESY 2022-23 and 14.60% in ESY 2023-24. Further, for the ongoing ESY 2024-25, the blending percentage has gone up to 18.93% as on 30.06.2025. During the month of June, 2025, ethanol blending of 19.92% has been achieved.
