India's transport sector continues to be the biggest consumer of diesel, leaving behind agriculture, power generation and industrial applications by a huge margin. It accounted for 59.8 per cent of the total consumption of the fuel during 2002-03, compared with 19.9 per cent by agriculture, 6.8 per cent by the power sector and sand metric tonnes of diesel in 2002-03 and 1,381 thousand metric tonnes in the previous year.