The Bio-fuel programme in India is to be developed on Public-Private Partnerships which would promote bio-fuel plantations on government, community and private lands. Simultaneously, the industrial sector is also being encouraged to increase ethanol production from non-food feedstocks. \r
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Addressing the 'International Bio-fuels Conference' at Brussels today, Shri Vilas Muttemvar, the Minister for New and Renewable Energy said that several Indian corporates and business houses have in collaboration with the Government started to establish Jatropha plantations on waste lands or have begun contract farming on private holdings.
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