The Government of India through a Press Information Bureau release on April 23, 2026 confirmed that aviation turbine fuel blended with Sustainable Aviation Fuel has been formally brought under the Aviation Turbine Fuel (Regulation of Marketing) Order, 2001 through a notification dated April 17, 2026. The administrative measure plugs a regulatory gap by enabling marketing companies, refiners and airlines to handle SAF-blended jet fuel within the same control regime that currently governs conventional ATF. SAF is a renewable aviation-grade hydrocarbon fuel chemically similar to ATF and fully compatible with existing aircraft engines, derived from feedstocks such as crops, biogenic residues and waste materials, offering significant reduction in life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions compared with fossil ATF. The Bureau of Indian Standards specification IS 1571 covers petroleum-based ATF and co-processed SAF while IS 17081 covers SAF blended with traditional ATF. SAF supplied for international flights must additionally meet the sustainability criteria of the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, the global market-based measure being implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization. India has set indicative SAF blending targets of one per cent in 2027, two per cent in 2028 and five per cent by 2030 for international flights, ahead of the mandatory phase of CORSIA which begins in 2027 and requires international carriers to offset emissions above a defined baseline. The notification supports India's climate commitments and decarbonisation of the rapidly growing civil aviation sector.