Chhattisgarh has great potential to produce compressed biogas (green automotive fuel). It will help to enrich the environment and also generate employment, said Dr Deepak Dwivedi, Dean, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Amethi (Uttar Pradesh).
He was making a presentation on two projects before officials of the Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board at Nava Raipur.
Project one is ‘Development of New Sustainable (Rust-proof) Biogas Plant Integrated with vermi-compositing unit suitable for Chhattisgarh’. The second is ‘Establishing the Facility of Green Automotive Fuel Production in Chhattisgarh Integrating Narwa, Gurwa, Ghurwa and Bari (NGGB) scheme’.
He said both these projects were important and related to Chhattisgarh as per the government's ongoing schemes of procurement of cow dung and implementation of NGGB.
He said it would help to protect the environment in the long run and also generate employment.
CECB Member Secretary R.P. Tiwari said the Municipal Solid Waste management was a problem in the state. In such projects, it would help to resolve the waste but pave the way for automotive fuel (compressed biogas) production.