new delhi the government is aiming to ensure e20 vehicles running on fuel blended with 20 ethanol enter the market by 2025 sources said cabinet secretary rajiv gauba on thursday took a review meeting with half a dozen ministries on the roadmap for ethanol fuelled vehicles in india just a day after the government announced plans to accelerate ethanol production sources said to push the move towards production the government has also set up a committee of three union ministers comprising nitin gadkari dharmendra pradhan and piyush goyal officials said while manufacturing of ethanolfuelled vehicles is no more a challenge considering that many other countries have them getting enough ethanol remains the key issue so all the agencies concerned have been asked to work in coordination to ensure that e20 vehicles hit indian market in the next five years this is possible in states such as maharashtra karnataka and even in uttar pradesh which have significant share of the total ethanol production said a source meanwhile the road transport ministry has issued draft automotive industry standard ais norms for vehicles that can run on fuel with 20 85 95 blending of ethanol and the ones running on 100 pure ethanol all these vehicles will get distinct identification marks e20 e85 e95 and e100 as it is in the case of cng and hydrogenfuelled vehicles the maximum ethanol blending in petrol to be used in vehicles has not crossed 10 so far and the overall blending is around 56 in 78 states the blending of ethanol in petrol is up to 9 a sugar industry source said sources said going by the target set for 20 ethanol blending by 2030 india would require around 1100 crore litres of ethanol annually only the sugar manufacturing industry wont be able to meet that requirement