Govt Breaks Silence On E20 Ethanol 'Experiment' Reports Following Supreme Court Hearing

Summary

The Indian government has denied reports that it described its twenty percent ethanol blending programme as an experiment during a Supreme Court hearing. The Law Ministry issued a clarification stating that the Ethanol Blended Petrol Programme and the E twenty policy were never referred to as an experiment, and that such claims did not reflect the submissions made on behalf of the government. The government's statement came in response to media reports that the Attorney General had told the Supreme Court that the E twenty programme was an ongoing experiment.