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India changes over to cleaner petrol, diesel
24 September 2010: India has reportedly fully switched over to cleaner Euro-III and Euro-IV petrol and diesel as of yesterday and well ahead of the October one deadline, according to sources.
The Euro-IV grade petrol and diesel has been launched in 13 big cities from 1 April 2010 and Euro-III grade fuel was to be introduced in the rest of the country in phases by 1 October 2010.
When Euro-IV grade fuel was launched in April, petrol prices were increased by Rs 0.50 a litre and diesel by Rs 0.26 per litre. For introduction of Euro-III grade, petrol prices have been raised by Rs 0.26 per litre and diesel by Rs 0.21 a litre in phases as the fuels were introduced throughout the country.
As against the approved scheduled of introducing Euro-III fuel by 1 October 2010, introduction of higher grade petrol was advanced in 20 states and that of diesel in 23 states.
In the last leg, Bharat Stage-III (the India equivalent of Euro-III) petrol and diesel has been introduced in the seven North Eastern States on 22 September 2010.
The government had already introduced BS-IV (the India equivalent of Euro-IV grade) petrol and diesel in all 13 identified cities (NCR of Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Surat, Pune, Solapur, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad) on a single day effective 1 April 2010.
The Auto Fuel Policy had prescribed a
road map for introduction of BS-IV and BS-III grades of petrol and diesel
(equivalent to Euro -III and Euro-IV Petrol and Diesel) in the country.
Source:
Times of India