Technical bids for about 1,500 electric buses across cities completed, financial bids to open soon
Technical bids for supply of about 1,500 electric buses under the FAME II scheme of 5,595 e-buses across several cities has been completed and these would soon go through the financial bids before finalisation.
The Centre through the Department of Heavy Industries had announced the FAME II Scheme wherein it had approved the deployment of 5,595 electric buses across 64 cities with a million plus population and some select smart cities.
As a part of Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid) and Electric Vehicles (FAME) II an amount of ₹10,000 crore was earmarked and the State transport undertakings (STUs) were given till November 15, 2019 to finalise the tender process of e-buses.
