"Waste to Wealth – Scaling GOBARdhan" Workshop Is Held by BPCL in Mumbai

News Desk, News Nation 360: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) along with the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG) and the Government of Maharashtra organized a high-level state workshop in Mumbai entitled ‘Waste to Wealth – Scaling GOBARdhan’ to evolve an integrated institutional and commercial roadmap to fast-track the Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) development ecosystem across Maharashtra, which was inaugurated by Maharashtra Chief Secretary Rajesh Aggarwal, Additional Chief Secretary (UDD-2) Dr. K.H. Govind Raj, MoPNG Director (GP) Vikas Singh, MoPNG Deputy Secretary (IC) Yashika Mehta and BPCL Chairman & Managing Director Sanjay Khanna along with BPCL directors, where city gas distributors, urban local bodies, bio-energy project developers, and Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) will tap the state’s huge feedstock potential emanating from municipal organic solid waste, agricultural crop residue, cattle dung, sugar mill press mud, with the national GOBARdhan ethos of “Kachre se Kanchan” which CMD Sanjay Khanna emphasized on circularity of “Farm to Fuel, Fuel to Fertility, Fertility back to Farm” and the BPCL Corporate R&D Centre’s (CRDC) innovations on Enriched Fermented Organic Manure (EFOM) to enrich agricultural soil fertility, while central authorities urged the state government to fast-track the dedicated land banks, formalize the state-level policy harmonization in consonance with Model State CBG Policy and utilize the SASCI financial instruments to ensure CBG project bankability, grid-injection access and long-term bio-fuel offtake.