The National Biofuel Coordination Committee (NBCC)meeting under the chairmanship of Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas has approved & allowed Food Corporation of India (FCI). To convert the available surplus rice to ethanolso as to utilize it in making alcohol-based hand-sanitizers & also for the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) programe. Policy It is approved in reference to the National Policy on Biofuels (2018) under Para 5.3 envisages that during an agriculture crop year when there is oversupply of food grains as anticipated by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, the policy will allow conversion of these surplus quantities of food grains to ethanol, based on the approval of NBCC.
