The ministry of power proposed a scheme for supporting switching to electric mobility in India – for rolling out EV infrastructure across 70 cities and 20 per cent of highways in five years.
The government on Friday approved amendments to Model Building Bye-laws (MBBL), 2016 and Urban Regional Development Plans Formulation and Implementation (URDPFI) Guidelines, 2014, to set up charging stations for electric vehicles across the country.
A spokesperson for the ministry of housing and urban affairs said that the guidelines will act as a guiding document to the state governments and union territories to incorporate the norms and standards of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in their respective building bye-laws, reported Hindustan Times.
Going forward
The government permitted private charging at residences and offices. Public charging stations will be set up every 25 km on both sides of highways and roads. For heavy electric vehicles such as trucks and buses, at least one fast-charging station will be set up every 100 km.
Charging facilities will also be available at bus depots and transport hubs within three years. In the first phase, to be completed by 2021, mega cities — with a population of over 4 million as per the 2011 census — will be covered. Other big cities such as state capitals and union territories will come under the second phase, to be completed by 2023.
A meeting was held on Friday between the Fifteenth Finance Commission, chaired by power minister R K Singh and chairman, finance commission, N K Singh.
The ministry of power proposed to the commission a scheme for supporting switching to electric mobility in India – for rolling out EV infrastructure across 70 cities and 20 per cent of highways in five years, i.e, by 2025 — at a cost of Rs 5,000 crore.
