{"id":377355,"date":"2020-10-08T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T05:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377355"},"modified":"2020-10-08T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T05:32:51","slug":"20-subsidy-for-charging-infrastructure-likely-in-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/20-subsidy-for-charging-infrastructure-likely-in-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"20% subsidy for charging infrastructure likely in Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Karnataka government has proposed a subsidy of 20% or Rs 10 lakh, whichever is higher, to individuals willing to set up public charging stations for electric vehicles. An EV charging station costs Rs 30-40 lakh. An official aware of the matter said the subsidy is likely to encourage people to invest in installation of EV charging stations, a step towards building EV infrastructure that Bengaluru lacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have decided to offer a subsidy of 20% to any individual who comes forward to develop charging stations. The proposal on subsidy will be sent to the government for approval,\u201d an officer in the state\u2019s commerce and industries department told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Karnataka government has proposed a subsidy of 20% or Rs 10 lakh, whichever is higher, to individuals willing to set up public charging stations for electric vehicles. An EV charging station costs Rs 30-40 lakh. An official aware of the matter said the subsidy is likely to encourage people to invest in installation of EV charging stations, a step towards building EV infrastructure that Bengaluru lacks. \u201cWe have decided to offer a subsidy of 20% to any individual who comes forward to develop charging stations. The proposal on subsidy will be sent to the government for approval,\u201d an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377355","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}