{"id":375393,"date":"2020-09-26T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T04:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375393"},"modified":"2020-09-26T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T05:57:08","slug":"govt-sanctions-670-electric-buses-241-charging-stations-under-fame-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-sanctions-670-electric-buses-241-charging-stations-under-fame-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt sanctions 670 electric buses, 241 charging stations under FAME scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The government on Friday said it has sanctioned 670 electric buses for Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Chandigarh and 241 charging stations in Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat and Port Blair under Phase-II of the FAME India Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Union Heavy Industries minister Prakash Javadekar said the decision reflects the Centre&#8217;s commitment to reduce dependence on fossil fuel and address the issues of vehicular emissions, and is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s vision for eco-friendly public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a good start, these e-buses, e-rickshaws and e-scooties as well as e-cars for city use are the best way forward for environment friendly transport,&#8221; Javadekar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The government on Friday said it has sanctioned 670 electric buses for Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Chandigarh and 241 charging stations in Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat and Port Blair under Phase-II of the FAME India Scheme. Union Heavy Industries minister Prakash Javadekar said the decision reflects the Centre&#8217;s commitment to reduce dependence on fossil fuel and address the issues of vehicular emissions, and is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s vision for eco-friendly public transportation. &#8220;This is a good start, these e-buses, e-rickshaws and e-scooties as well as e-cars for city use are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}