<h1>Alternate fuels policy to boost AFR adoption in cement, backed by standards and international technical funding for scale-up.</h1> Promotion of Alternate Fuels and Raw Materials (AFR) usage in the cement sector is a policy priority to raise the Thermal Substitution Rate; the government committed to framing conducive policies, endorsed recent BIS Standards on Composite Cement, and industry plus international partners (including Norwegian-funded SINTEF collaboration) were presented as technical and funding mechanisms to scale AFR implementation and address operational challenges.