Govt. approves blending of 60 lakh lts of ethanol with diesel

Mysore, Aug 20 (UNI) Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) Chief Environmental Officer Ananda Rao today said that the state government has approved to handle 60 lakh Liters of ethanol to be blended with diesel for use as fuel in its vehicles.

Speaking at a function organised on the eve of the Renewable Energy Day here, he said that KSRTC would introduce use of ethanol along with diesel in 20 Depots across the state. It would save 70 per cent of the carbon emission and resulting in controlling the environmental pollution in the state.

He claimed that the KSRTC has become first public transport corporation in southeast Asia to introduce this system as an alternative renewable energy to save the environmental problem.

He said that KSRTC is the third largest public transportation organisation in the country by plying more then 17,500 buses and burning 40 crores of liters of the fuel per year.

He said the KSRTC also uses solar energy for pumping fuel to its vehicles and also for the lighting in some depots in the state. The KSRTC has become subject for the studies in the world today. All these system was being introduced under clean development management (CDM) plans keeping in view of the rising global temperature, he added.

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