Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh is the first chief minister in the country, who has been using bio-fuel in his vehicle and he said, "My Tata Safari is giving proper mileage and the bio-diesel is a trouble-free fuel as it has never given any problem anywhere.' Before running the vehicle of the chief minister on bio-fuel, the Bio-fuel Development Authority had run a vehicle for 2,800 km in the state to check the bio-product and also to popularise the alternate to the costly diesel. With commercial production of bio-fuel from jatropha, Chhattisgarh is looking at replacing diesel totally in a decade.