The foundation stone ceremony for setting up the first Second Generation (2G) Ethanol Bio-refinery in India was held on 25 December 2016 at village Tarkhanwala, Bathinda in Punjab.
●    Harsimarat Kaur Badal, Union Minister of Food Processing Industries, Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State (I/C) Petroleum & Natural Gas, and Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab, jointly laid the foundation stone.
●    The approximate investment for setting up of the refinery is Rs 600 crores.  The project will be set-up by the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL).
●    The proposed Bathinda bio-refinery will be utilizing agricultural residues for production of 100 KL per day or 3.20 crore litres per-annum of ethanol. 
●    This per-annum production may be sufficient to meet the 26 per cent of the ethanol blending requirement of the Punjab.
●    With the setting up of the bio-refinery, employment for about 1200 -1300 persons will be generated in the biomass supply chain. 
●    It will also generate an additional income of approximately Rs 20 crores per annum for the farmers through purchase of their agriculture residues.


 

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