Surplus rice currently available in Food Corporation of India: Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Permission sought from Center for production of ethanol from surplus paddy of the state
Raipur: Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Permission sought from Center for production of ethanol from surplus paddy of the state
Surplus rice currently available in Food Corporation of India
Center has given permission to produce ethanol
In Chhattisgarh, every year paddy is purchased from farmers on support price
After the requirement of the state's public distribution system and giving rice to the Food Corporation of India, 6 lakh metric tons of surplus paddy is saved every year
Unnecessary burden falls on the state's economic resources
Biofuel is included in the state's new industrial policy, in the list of high priority industries
Special incentive package has been announced for biofuels industries
MoU has been signed with four private investors for setting up bio-ethanol plant
Raipur Date 02 December 2020
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has written a letter to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi requesting him to allow the Center to produce ethanol from surplus paddy of the state. The Chief Minister has written in the letter that at present the sale of surplus rice available in the Food Corporation of India has been allowed to produce ethanol. In Chhattisgarh, every year paddy is purchased from farmers at a support price. After the requirement of the state's public distribution system and rice to the Food Corporation of India, 6 lakh metric tonnes of surplus paddy is saved every year, which puts unnecessary burden on the state's economic resources. Mr. Baghel has written in the letter that biofuels are included in the list of high priority industries in the new industrial policy of the state. Special incentive package for biofuels industries has been announced. An MoU has also been signed with four private investors to set up a bio-ethanol plant.
The Chief Minister has written in the letter that in the last 18 months, efforts have been made by the Government of Chhattisgarh to allow production of bio-ethanol from the excess paddy produced in the state towards the National Biofuels Policy, 2018 and its goal. At the April 20, 2020 meeting of the National Biofuels Coordination Committee, F.C.I. Permission has been granted to sell ethanol from surplus rice available in the country. The amount of paddy purchased at the support price in the Kharif marketing year 2018-19 and 2019-20 in the state of Chhattisgarh, after the required quantity in the state's public distribution system in the central pool and state pool and the rice supplied to the Food Corporation of India in the central pool There was also a surplus, which caused unnecessary burden on the state's economic resources.
Mr. Baghel has written in the letter that the role of state governments is important to attract investors in the field of bio-ethanol production. Under the New Industrial Policy of Chhattisgarh, 2019-24, bio-fuels were included in the list of high priority industries and a special incentive package (Thamechwam Chwaspabal) was announced for this. As a result, in September 2020, an agreement (Dawn) was shared with 04 private investors for setting up bio-ethanol plant in the state, which would produce more than 12 crore liters of ethanol per annum in the state from the next year, of which about 3 lakh 50 thousand. Tons of surplus paddy will be consumed. To use this production capacity, permission of the Central Government is necessary for the production of ethanol from surplus paddy.
The Chief Minister has written in the letter that under the National Biofuel Policy 2018, the National Biofuels Committee (Chhattisgarh) has been established under the chairmanship of the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, through which there is a provision to allow ethanol production from surplus paddy. In the state of Chhattisgarh, if there is a real investment in a special area like bio-ethanol under the state industrial policy, then the capacity addition of bio-ethanol production will not only solve the surplus paddy of the state, but the FCI. There will also be a possibility of disposal of surplus rice. FCI By (e) the surplus rice stored in the states will be allocated to bio-ethanol plants. The Chief Minister has requested Prime Minister Shri Modi to provide necessary instructions to the state of Chhattisgarh on the support price and to provide permission for production of Ethanol from the estimated surplus 6 lakh MT of paddy every year after the supply of essential rice in the state and center pool. Trouble circulating to the Ministry of Natural Gas.