With this, India will join a league of select countries that use fuel containing just 10 parts per million of sulphur.
In good news, India on Wednesday became one of the few nations who have the world's cleanest petrol and diesel after oil companies rolled out Euro-VI emission compliant fuels.
What's more important is that it happened without any disruptions or hike in prices. The development would have resulted in up to Re 1 per litre rise in the prices as the country jumped from BS-IV grade to BS-IV. However, the oil companies decided to pass this benefit to customers and adjusted it against the reduction in global oil prices that have fallen to a 17-year-low.
"We are today 100 per cent supplying BS-VI petrol and diesel. All the over 68,700 petrol pumps in the country are selling the cleaner fuel from today," Sanjiv Singh, Chairman, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) - the firm that controls roughly half of the market was quoted by a news agency.
He further added that the switch hasn't led to a change in the prices adding that the feat was achieved in just three years and none of the large economies has done it so far.
It's been a fortnight since oil companies changed their prices. As of today, a litre of petrol in Delhi costs Rs 69.59 while diesel costs Rs 62.29.
With this, India will join a league of select countries that use fuel containing just 10 parts per million of sulphur. It will reduce vehicular emissions to a significant level, thereby reducing pollution.
Notably, India adopted the Euro-III standard of fuel in 2010 and it had a sulphur content of 350 ppm. It took seven years to move to the BS-IV equivalent in 2017 that has a sulphur content of 50 ppm.
India adopted Euro-III equivalent (or Bharat Stage-III) fuel with a sulphur content of 350 ppm in 2010 and then took seven years to move to BS-IV that had a sulphur content of 50 ppm. From BS-IV to BS-VI it took just three years.
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