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Telangana Government has decided to marque it mandatory for schools and organisations with sizeable employees spot to guarantee electrical vehicles constituted astatine slightest 25% to 50% of their transport fleet.
A broad argumentation successful this absorption is being actively worked retired and the guidelines volition beryllium released soon. The Government is trying to guarantee that 50% of the vehicles owned by antithetic departments and officials are electrical vehicles. Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar told the Legislative Assembly connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026) that discussions were held with representatives of the companies manufacturing electrical vehicles wherever they were asked to springiness concessions to Government employees who are opting for electrical vehicles successful spot of those moving connected accepted fuels.
He was responding to the concerns expressed by the members implicit the expanding contamination levels successful the State Capital which was adjacent lone to New Delhi. The Government had already enactment successful spot a broad argumentation for promoting the usage of electrical vehicles exempting this people of vehicles from registration charges and centrifugal conveyance tax.
EVs represent 2% of full vehicles
As a result, income of electrical vehicles accrued importantly successful the caller months with EVs constituting 2% of the full vehicles successful the State arsenic against 0.03% 2 years ago. “The determination was taken successful spite of the scope for losing ¤900 crore gross done MV taxation and registration charges,” helium said.
While promoting electrical vehicles for wide use, the Government had besides decided to regenerate the buses owned by the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) with the electrical ones. Accordingly, 875 buses, constituting 8.84% of the fleet were hired and deployed. This was successful summation to the 2,800 electrical buses being procured nether the PM E-Drive strategy for metropolis operations.
“Of the full TGSRTC fleet, 35% is projected to beryllium electrical by 2030 and 80% of the fleet volition beryllium electrified by 2035,” helium said. The TGSRTC was truthful opting for retrofitting of the existing buses with electrical engines truthful that the buses operating wrong the limits of the Outer Ring Road were either electrical oregon retrofitted ones.
Simultaneously, steps were initiated to publication cases against vehicles plying without valid fittingness and contamination nether power (PUC) certificates. As galore arsenic 22,340 cases were registered against vehicles plying without fittingness certificates successful the past 24 months and different 27,976 cases against vehicles without valid PUC. The Government had collected ₹4.28 crore and ₹2.39 crore respectively for the violations.
The Transport section had already migrated to the SARATHI App and migration to the VAHAN strategy of the Central Government would beryllium completed successful six months. Steps were taken to integrate the contamination investigating centres dispersed crossed the State with the distant server located astatine the Transport Commissioner’s office.
