India’s Bihar chief minister demands new Indian gov’t remove order permitting ethanol production only at existing sugar mills

In India, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has demanded that Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh withdraw the order that permits only existing sugar mills to produce ethanol directly from sugar cane. Other plants must produce ethanol from molasses, and Kumar knows that 23 proposed new sugar mills in Bihar and $5 billion in investment was killed off when the central government issued its order.

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