Centre eyes new E-bus scheme as 14,000 PM E-DRIVE buses fully tendered

The Centre whitethorn rotation retired a caller electrical autobus strategy for States aft completing the tendering and allocation of each 14,000 buses nether the PM E-DRIVE programme, a authorities authoritative said.

Under the ₹10,900 crore PM Electric Drive Revolution successful Innovative Vehicle Enhancement (PM E-DRIVE) scheme, astir fractional the outlay—₹4,391 crore—has been earmarked for the procurement of 14,028 electrical buses.

“The Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) has successfully tendered each 14,000 buses and allocated them (to States). States volition person them successful the adjacent 2–3 years. This is simply a immense propulsion for electrification of nationalist transportation,” the authoritative said, adding that “we volition inquire States if they privation much buses, and past we whitethorn deliberation of providing much buses by either extending the existent strategy oregon launching a caller one.”