{"id":375426,"date":"2020-09-26T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T03:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375426"},"modified":"2020-09-26T11:28:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T05:58:25","slug":"670-electric-buses-241-charging-stations-sanctioned-under-fame-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/670-electric-buses-241-charging-stations-sanctioned-under-fame-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"670 electric buses, 241 charging stations sanctioned under FAME scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government 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 &#8216;FAME India&#8217; Scheme. <\/p>\n<p>Union Minister of Heavy Industries Prakash Javadekar said on Friday, &#8220;This is a big push to Prime Minister&#8217;s vision of eco-friendly Public transportation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Announcing this in a series of tweets, Javadekar said the decision reflects the government&#8217;s commitment to reduce dependence on fossil fuel and to address issues of vehicular emissions.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Heavy Industries (DHI) under the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises is administering the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &amp;) Electric Vehicles in India (FAME India) Scheme since April, 2015 to promote adoption of electric\/hybrid vehicles (xEVs) in India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government 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 &#8216;FAME India&#8217; Scheme. Union Minister of Heavy Industries Prakash Javadekar said on Friday, &#8220;This is a big push to Prime Minister&#8217;s vision of eco-friendly Public transportation.&#8221; Announcing this in a series of tweets, Javadekar said the decision reflects the government&#8217;s commitment to reduce dependence on fossil fuel and to address issues of vehicular emissions.&#8221; The Department of Heavy Industries (DHI) under the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375426","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=375426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}