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The road transport and highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that India is committed to an eminently achievable clean energy-based economy, through an annual road-map for production, supply of ethanol till 2025-26, and systems for its countrywide marketing. He said the country will soon have a policy for flex-fuel engines and this policy will encourage automobile manufacturers to produce such engines. 

The minister further said India is shifting its public transport fleet to green fuels like bio-CNG, ethanol, methanol, electricity and green hydrogen, which will also provide citizens some respite from surging petrol prices. He pointed out that India is one of the fastest-growing economies leading through sustainable and climate-neutral development. While the government is focusing to create an investor-friendly ecosystem to promote domestic manufacturing, he said ‘parallelly we are also giving importance to infrastructure development’. As expected, he said India is gaining good momentum in the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem.

Gadkari further said his ministry is also planning to run a railway, metro, and long-run intercity buses on green hydrogen. He noted that both battery electric vehicle and fuel cell vehicle technologies are complementary to each other and are all set to overtake fossil-run automotive by 2050 in the country. He added that India's fuel energy security can be well supported by the agriculture sector as it provides opportunities for concepts such as waste to wealth and waste to energy, ultimately leading to the benefit of all.