The Union Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP&NG) on 10 August 2015 announc

ed Marketing of High Speed Diesel (HSD) blended with Bio-diesel in selected reta
il outlets of OMC s in New Delhi & Vishakhapatnam (by HPCL), Haldia (by BPCL) and
Vijayawada (by IOCL).
It is a path breaking step in India s retail sector for launching Bio-diesel B 5 b
lend to diesel consumers.
Sale of fuel was announced on the occasion of World Bio Fuel Day by Minister of
State (I/C) for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan at HPCL s retail outle
t in New Delhi. He also launched the sale of Bio-Diesel blended HSD in other cit
ies through live streaming from New Delhi.
Earlier, the ministry had permitted direct sale of Bio-Diesel (B100) to bulk con
sumers like Railways, shipping and State Road Transport Corporations etc. This w
as permitted as part of promotion of Ethanol Blended Petrol program (EBP) in the
country, wherein ethanol blending in petrol is planned to increase from 5 to 10
% based on the availability of ethanol.