Indian oil manufacturing companies seeking 600M liters in latest tender

In India, The Hindu Times newspaper reports that oil marketing companies are seeking 660 million liters of ethanol through tender despite the fact that the government had previously limited ethanol production to 170 million liters. The ethanol supplied to the buy tender can be from any potential feedstock. With ethanol blending mandate at around 15%. Despite earlier concerns about low sugar production that forced the government to tighten ethanol production in turn, sugar seems to be of sufficient quantity that the government appears to have lifted those limits.