India calling on industrial sectors to take up biofuel consumption

In India, the transport minister who has long favored a transition to biofuels is now taking a sectoral approach, encouraging individual sectors to switch to biofuels such as the construction equipment industry. He is calling for a major push to boost national highways to 150,000 km from the current 90,000 km and wants to see those doing the infrastructure construction are using biofuels in their machinery rather than biofuels. He says it is the industry’s responsibility to be innovative and protect the environment by moving away from fossil fuels.