In a bid to accelerate the shift toward clean mobility in public transport systems, the government is looking at floating its largest ever tender for procuring nearly 8,000 electric buses for state transport undertakings (STUs) across the country.
This is the second such tender being mooted by the government to encourage STUs to replace ageing, polluting diesel buses with electric ones. Earlier this year, Convergence Energy Services Ltd (CESL) – the state-run company handling the acquisition of EVs for central and state government departments – floated a tender to procure 5,580 electric buses. The tender was valued at about Rs 5,500 crore.
