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- Government to allow bio-bitumen mixing up to 35% to save foreign exchange outflows.
- Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said that government will allow the mixing of lignin up to 35% in petroleum-based bitumen.
- Nitin Gadkari said that one tonne of parali (paddy straw) gives 30% of bio-bitumen, 350 kg of bio-gas and 350 kg of biochar.
- The cost of petroleum-based bitumen is ₹50 per kg while the cost of bio-bitumen from biomass (rice straw) is ₹40 per kg.
- In India, 90% of roads are being prepared through the bituminous layers.
- In 2023-24, Bitumen consumption was 88 lakh tonnes. In 2024-25 it is expected to be 100 lakh tonnes.
- Bitumen is a black substance produced through the distillation of crude oil and is used for making roads and roofs.
- 450 projects are located in Haryana, Punjab and Western Uttar Pradesh for converting biomass (parali) into bio-CNG.
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