Example of Sub Leadership - Bio Fuel Initiatives at State Level

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Very Happy to see Sub Leadership at State level is going ahead to take initiative which has direct value to the India Economy in terms of Growth, Employment generation, Creating Green Energy at mass scale.... excerpts of some of the announcements ....

“We have launched our Jatropha plantation programme taking a cue from the Planning Commission’s document, National Mission on Biodiesel. We are aware that the GoM on bio-fuels is deliberating the issue. The broad policy of the central government has already been enunciated in the Planning Commission document. The GoM is discussing incentives to be provided and the work of central government agencies in aiding implementation of the programme,” SK Shukla, executive director of Chhattisgarh Bio-fuel Development Authority (CBDA), told FE.

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• State government agencies have raised about 390 million Jatropha saplings in nurseries and have distributed them free to farmers for planting in 1,55,000 hectare in the last three years. In 2008-09, 200 million Jatropha saplings would be raised in nurseries. Chhattisgarh has also announced support prices for Jatropha seed at Rs 6,500 a tonne, Karanj seeds at Rs 6,000 a tonne and for Jatropha and Karanj oils at Rs 18 per litre. Also, it has framed a new policy for leasing out wastelands to investors. In addition, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is being used for Jatropha plantation.

• The Bio-fuel Authority of Rajasthan, too, has identified 2,106.8 hectares in 11 districts for Jatropha, said PC Chaplot, of the directorate of extension education in Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology. The state is also exploring the possibility of diverting 2% to 3% farm land for Jatropha in the form of hedges around fields for protecting crops, water harvesting as well as acting as a windbreak.

• In the south, Karnataka has set up an autonomous Bio-fuel Board with members drawn from institutions, agriculture universities, forest and agriculture departments, industry and NGOs for integrated development of the bio-fuel programme and formulating support prices for seeds, oil and oilcakes, KV Sarvesh, of the state agriculture department.
  
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• In Uttarakhand, Uttaranchal Bio-fuel Board has been set up. Uttaranchal Biodiesel Ltd, a company having its corporate office in Mumbai and registered office in Delhi, is setting up a sate-of-the art multi-feed bio-fuel refinery for production of 600 tonne per day (TPD) bio-fuel. The primary feedstock for the refinery would be Jatropha oil.

Of late, emphasis is being given to the use of Pongamia seed oil as a substitute for diesel in electricity generation in rural areas of Tumkur and Ramanagara in Karnataka and Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh. Jatropha oil is being directly used in place of diesel for tractors and water lifting devices in Tamil Nadu and Punjab.