Benefits

♤ Employment: Making ethanol from bamboo in North-East, lakhs of people will get employment and several industries will come up, on the lines of successful industries in Italy. There is a potential to manufacture 40,000 litres of second generation ethanol here.

♤ Environment-friendly: For ex: Flex-fuel cars in Brazil run on new ethanol and pollution is minimal.

♤ Boost to ethanol production could cut India's huge crude oil imports bill, pegged at Rs 7 lakh crore per annum.