Bihar to spice up ethanol manufacturing via maize: Nitish Kumar

Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar. (Record)

Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar Thursday mentioned his executive will glance to spice up the manufacturing of ethanol from maize, which is grown in 21 of the state’s 38 districts. He used to be talking in Patna all over the digital inauguration of the brand new Koelwar bridge linking Patna and Ara.

Responding to an offer via Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Nitish mentioned a identical proposal he had introduced to the UPA executive all over his first time period used to be no longer authorized. “We had approached the UPA executive all over my first time period (2005-2010) however they didn’t reply. We’re satisfied that the existing executive has warmed as much as the theory,” mentioned the Bihar Leader Minister.

Gadkari, the Union Minister for Delivery and Highways, used to be just about attending the bridge inauguration from New Delhi.

The bridge over the Sone river used to be built at a price of round Rs 266 crore, parallel to the outdated Koelwar bridge. 3 of its lanes are actually open to visitors whilst 3 extra are anticipated to be in a position via June. It is going to allow smoother motion of visitors between South and Central Bihar and Japanese Uttar Pradesh. Visitors go with the flow to Delhi may be prone to be smoother with the Patna-Ara-Buxar and NH-84 (Ara-Buxar) routes getting attached to the Lucknow-Ghazipur Limited-access highway. Building at the 1.52-km challenge started in 2017.

Previous, Gadkari, who may be MSME Minister, mentioned: “We’d like a large number of ethanol. Ethanol has the potential for being a Rs 2 lakh crore-industry within the nation…I might request the Bihar CM to concentrate on ethanol manufacturing via maize. Our MSME division will strengthen it.”

Gadkari additionally mentioned the newly-constructed bridge would supply a very important hyperlink no longer simply between Bihar cities but in addition between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and to Delhi.

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