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New Delhi : A meeting of National Biofuel Coordination Committee (NBCC) was held on April 20, 2020, under the Chairmanship of Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, wherein it was approved that the surplus rice available with Food Corporation of India (FCI) may be converted into ethanol for utilisation in making alcohol-based hand-sanitisers and in blending for Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) programme.
National Policy on Biofuels, 2018 under Para 5.3 inter-alia envisages that during an agriculture crop year when there is projected over supply of foodgrains as anticipated by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, the policy will allow conversion of these surplus quantities of foodgrains into ethanol based on the approval of National Biofuel Coordination Committee (NBCC), according to a PIB release.