New Delhi (NVI): In an effort to give a further push to clean mobility in road transport sector, the Department of Heavy Industries has sanctioned 2636 Electric Vehicle charging stations in 62 cities.
These charging points have been submitted by 19 public entities for 24 States and UTs under FAME India (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India) scheme phase II.
“By installing all these charging stations, it is expected that at least one charging station will be available in most of the selected cities in a grid of 4 Km X 4 km, which will boost the confidence of users of Electric Vehicles in terms of Range Anxiety and also this will encourage the OEMs to launch the new Electric vehicle Models which they were hesitant because of lack of Charging infrastructure,” Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Prakash Javadekar said.
As many as 317 EV charging stations have been allotted in Maharashtra, 266 in Andhra Pradesh, 256 in Tamil Nadu, 228 in Gujarat, 205 in Rajasthan, 207 in Uttar Pradesh, 172 in Karnataka, 159 in Madhya Pradesh, 141 in West Bengal, 138 in Telangana, 131 in Kerala, 72 in Delhi, 70 in Chandigarh, 50 in Haryana, 40 in Meghalaya, 37 in Bihar, 29 in Sikkim, 25 each in Jammu & Srinagar and Chhattisgarh, 20 in Assam, 18 in Odisha and 10 each in Uttarakhand, Puducherry and Himachal Pradesh.
The sanction letters to the selected entities will be issued in phases after ensuring the availability of land for Charging Stations, signing of necessary agreements with concerned partner organizations like city municipal corporation, Discom, Oil companies etc.
Subsequently, each selected public entities are required to initiate the procurement process in a time bound manner for deployment of sanctioned Charging Stations.
Department of Heavy Industry had invited the Expression of Interest (EoI) from million-plus cities, smart cities, State and UT capitals and cities from special category states for submission of proposal for availing incentives under FAME India Scheme Phase II for deployment of EV charging infrastructure within Cities.
In response thereof, about 106 proposals from Public and Private Entities for the deployment of about 7000 EV charging stations were received.
After evaluation of these proposals as per EoI, on the advice of Project Implementation and Sanctioning Committee (PISC) the Government sanctioned 2636 charging stations to 62 cities submitted by 19 public entities for 24 states.
Out of these 2636 charging stations, 1633 Charging Stations will be Fast Charging Stations and 1003 nos will be slow charging stations.
With this, about 14000 no of chargers will be installed across the selected cities.
