The government has invited proposals for installation of charging stations from entities that intend to build and operate charging infrastructure. This charging infrastructure will cover major highways and expressways in the country. Department of Heavy Industries has floated an Expression of Interest for inviting proposals. Proposal is open to various government organisations, PSUs (State/Central), state-owned DISCOM, Oil PSUs and similar other public and private entities to build and operate Public EV charging infrastructure.
Proposals invited from interested entities to build and operate EV charging infrastructure by the government. These expressways on plan are the Mumbai – Pune, Ahmedabad – Vadodara, Delhi – Agra Yamuna, Bengaluru – Mysore, Bengaluru – Chennai, Surat – Mumbai, Agra – Lucknow, Eastern Peripheral and Hyderabad – ORR Expressways.
Similarly, proposals are also invited from entities for highways. Highways on list include Delhi – Srinagar, Delhi – Kolkata, Agra – Nagpur, Meerut – Gangotri Dham, Mumbai – Delhi, Mumbai – Panaji, Mumbai – Nagpur, Mumbai – Bengaluru and Kolkata – Bhubaneswar.
Under Phase-II of the FAME India Scheme, Government of India (GoI) intends to support the development of EV charging infrastructure. Government is facilitationg this by extending capital grant to organisations for promoting the use of Electric Vehicles (EVs).
The Centre has approved Phase-II of FAME India Scheme [Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India], for 3 years commencing from 1st April 2019. Its focus is the electrification of public and shared transportation.
