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The draft Electric Vehicle Policy 2021 envisages making Jharkhand a preferred manufacturing hub in eastern India and targets 10 per cent of the new vehicle registrations in the state by 2026 to be EVs besides conversion of 15 per cent of the state public transport vehicles to electric.

The state officials highlighted that an automobile hub is proposed near the new electronic manufacturing hub set up at Adityapur. In the case of green fuel, the draft Ethanol Production and Promotion Policy (JEPP) 2021 sees huge potential for commissioning biofuel manufacturing units in the state “as the estimate is that over the next three years the demand for ethanol in Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal combined will need about 100 crore litres of ethanol annually. The draft policy envisages increased use of grains for production of ethanol through backward and forward linkages between farmers and industries through state food corporation and Food Corporation of India. The draft policy stresses that the selection of feedstock for making ethanol will be as “permitted under National Policy on Biofuels, 2018”.