No permission for new buildings without e-charging facilities: PMC

Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has made it mandatory to set in place electric vehicle charging facility at buildings coming up in the city to get approval for building plans and completion certificates, officials said on Saturday. The civic administration has laid out different criteria for residential and commercial buildings.

For buildings which will have parking facility for more than 20 vehicles, e-charging points should be set up on parking premises. The electric vehicle charging facility should be for at least 20 per cent vehicles of the total parking capacity. In educational and commercial properties, the e-vehicle charging facility provision would be for 25 per cent vehicles of the total parking capacity.