Speaking at the “Bundi Ke Ratna 2025” awards hosted by First India News in Bundi, Rajasthan, Energy Minister Heeralal Nagar on Thursday said the district has immense growth potential and is set to emerge as the state’s next major ethanol hub.
Heeralal Nagar’s remarks come in the context of ongoing efforts to boost ethanol production in India. Last year, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, during an event in Rajasthan, encouraged farmers in Sri Ganganagar to resume cultivating sugar beet—not for sugar, but for ethanol. The minister also emphasized that incentivizing ethanol production could substantially increase farmers’ incomes.
Ethanol blending in petrol reached 20 per cent in India in October 2025, while the cumulative blending rate for the Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2024-25, from November 2024 to October 2025, stood at 19.2 per cent.
Data from the Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell (PPAC) shows that public sector oil marketing companies (PSU OMCs) received 98.2 crore litres of ethanol under the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) programme in October 2025, bringing the cumulative total from November 2024 to October 2025 to 1,003.1 crore litres. Ethanol actually blended under the programme in October 2025 amounted to 93.2 crore litres, taking the cumulative total to 1,022.4 crore litres over the same period.
