NEW DELHI: Amid increasing petrol and diesel prices, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday advocated the need for making the use of electric vehicles mandatory for officers in the Central government to push electric mobility in the country. Launching the \u201cGo Electric\u201d campaign to promote electric vehicles (EVs) and electric cooking, Gadkari said the mandatory use of 10,000 EVs by officers will help save nearly Rs 30 crore per month on account of fuel expenditure.
\n\u201cThere are so many secretaries, additional secretaries and government officials in Delhi. If all of them shift to electric vehicles it will help reduce air pollution and the fuel expenditure. I urge you (power minister R K Singh) to start this in your ministry to shift all vehicles attached to your ministry to electric and I will do the same in my ministry…I have decided to use only electric vehicles when I am in Nagpur,\u201d Gadkari said. The minister said he doesn\u2019t use the government vehicle when he is in Delhi.
\nThe minister urged the power ministry to be a partner in the execution of the proposed pilot project to have a dedicated lane for electric trucks on the upcoming Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. R K Singh said they will soon hold consultation with the highways ministry on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Amid increasing petrol and diesel prices, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday advocated the need for making the use of electric vehicles mandatory for officers in the Central government to push electric mobility in the country. Launching the \u201cGo Electric\u201d campaign to promote electric vehicles (EVs) and electric cooking, Gadkari said the mandatory use of 10,000 EVs by officers will help save nearly Rs 30 crore per month on account of fuel expenditure. \u201cThere are so many secretaries, additional secretaries and government officials in Delhi. If all of them shift to electric vehicles it will help reduce air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401275","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}