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In bid to accelerate the adoption of electrical vehicles, the authorities has brought guidelines for availing subsidy for conveyance charging stations, artillery swapping stations and artillery charging stations offering up to 100% subsidies.
The guidelines are nether the ₹10,000 crore PM E-drive strategy for promotion of electrical vehicles successful the state wrong which ₹2,000 crore has been apportioned for charging infrastructure.
The guidelines released precocious connected Sunday (September 28, 2025) evening identifies entities that are eligible for subsidies and offers enactment for deployment of upstream infrastructure costs, and successful definite cases, besides for EV Supply Equipment (EVSE) costs.
Upstream infrastructure includes organisation transformers, low- and high-tension cables, organisation boxes, circuit breakers/isolators, mounting structures, fencing, and civilian works. EVSE consists of EV chargers including charging guns.
According to the strategy guidelines, ministries of the Government of India, Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs), States and Union Territories, and nationalist assemblage undertakings (PSUs) nether them are eligible to taxable proposals to the Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI). These entities volition beryllium required to name nodal agencies to aggregate request and place suitable locations for charging stations earlier forwarding proposals to the ministry.
Entities whitethorn acceptable up, operate, and support EV charging stations directly, oregon prosecute Charge Point Operators (CPOs) for the same.
Key cardinal ministries specified arsenic Petroleum & Natural Gas, Road Transport & Highways, Health & Family Welfare, Power, Housing & Urban Affairs, Railways, Civil Aviation, Steel, and Ports, Shipping & Waterways volition beryllium capable to enactment guardant proposals done their CPSEs oregon appointed nodal agencies.
Public assemblage companies and bodies including Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL), National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Airports Authority of India (AAI), Steel Authority of India (SAIL), Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), Convergence Energy Services Ltd (CESL), and metro obstruction corporations are besides eligible to use either straight oregon done their genitor ministries.
The eligible entities volition beryllium expected to coordinate wrong their networks to representation request and finalise installation sites for the charging infrastructure.
States and Union Territories volition execute a akin role, designating nodal agencies to aggregate demand.
The government’s PM E-DRIVE strategy volition prioritise the installation of electrical conveyance charging stations successful cities with a colonisation exceeding 1 cardinal arsenic per the 2011 census, astute cities arsenic notified by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), and outer towns connected to the 7 large metros — Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Ahmedabad.
Additionally, superior cities of each states and Union Territories not covered by these categories, on with cities identified nether the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), volition person focused attraction for deployment. However, eligible entities whitethorn besides take to instal EV charging stations successful different cities based connected circumstantial requirements specified arsenic EV penetration levels, ensuring a flexible and demand-driven rollout of charging infrastructure crossed India.
In summation to metropolis limits, the strategy contemplates making prime inter-city and inter-state highways EV acceptable for chargers. Route enactment volition beryllium done successful consultation with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and different stakeholders.
