Following recent media reports claiming that the government has increased its target for ethanol blending in petrol to 30% within the next five years, PIB Fact Check has issued an official clarification.
Citing the media reports, PIB Fact Check stated, “Several news reports and social media posts have claimed that the government has increased its target for ethanol blending in petrol to 30% in the next five years. This claim is fake, and the government has taken no such decision. The target is to achieve 20% ethanol blending by the year 2025.”
Several news reports and social media posts have claimed that the government has increased its target for ethanol blending in petrol to 30% in the next five years#PIBFactCheck
❌ This claim is #Fake
▶️ The government has taken no such decision.
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— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) April 18, 2025
Recently Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, also responded to the reports during an event. He stated, “Yes, that is broadly the direction we are heading in, but we still have a lot of homework to do.”
The National Policy on Biofuels – 2018, as amended in 2022, advanced the target of 20% ethanol blending in petrol to the Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2025–26, from the earlier target of 2030. Public Sector OMCs achieved 10% ethanol blending in petrol in June 2022—five months ahead of the target set for ESY 2021–22. Ethanol blending further increased to 12.06% in ESY 2022–23 and 14.60% in ESY 2023–24.
The Indian government currently aims to achieve 20% ethanol blending by ESY 2025–26.
About PIB Fact Check
The Press Information Bureau has been at the forefront of taking proactive measures to combat fake news related to the Government of India. In November 2019, PIB established a Fact Check Unit (FCU) with the purpose of tackling the issue of fake news pertaining to the Government of India, its various ministries, Departments, Public Sector Undertakings, and other Central Government organizations.
The unit verifies claims about government policies, regulations, announcements and measures. Through an established rigorous fact-checking procedure, the PIB Fact Check Unit helps in dispelling myths, rumours and false claims, and provides accurate and reliable information to the public.
