Electric mobility to promote manufacturing, reduce dependency on oil import: Jaitley

10 Jan 2019 Evaluate

Indicating benefits of using electric mobility, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said the government's electric mobility programme will promote manufacturing and job creation and reduce dependency on oil import, besides reducing pollution. He underlined that electric mobility is an attractive, sustainable and profitable solution to mitigate adverse impact of climate change and the threat to public health caused especially by vehicular emission.

Adoption of electric vehicles will reduce dependence on oil imports and promote power capacity addition in India thereby enhancing energy security of the country and will further reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector and also positively impact the pollution level in the cities.

With an aim to maximise the use of electric mobility in their own departments, the government has installed charging points at the North Block. The Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) has signed an agreement with Energy Efficiency Services (EESL), an entity under the Ministry of Power, and deployed 15 electric vehicles (EVs) for its officers. With the induction of these 15 vehicles being provided on lease basis for a period of five years, DEA is expected to save over 36,000 litres of fuel every year besides leading to reduction of over 440 tonnes of CO2 annually.

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