Kolkata: The city\u2019s entire public transport will run on clean fuel \u2014 electricity, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and compressed natural gas (CNG) \u2014 by 2030, said state\u2019s transport minister Firhad Hakim on Wednesday. By public transport, he meant the bus fleet \u2014 both private and state transport undertakings (STUs), taxis and autos. This is certainly an ambitious departure from his earlier stance, when he set a 2030 target for the entire STU fleet to be EV only.
\nHakim was speaking at a panel discussion on accelerating electric mobility with green jobs and gender parity organised by Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry. While detailing the success story of e-vehicles in public transport, Hakim said, \u201c100 electric buses are plying in the city. STUs will be acquiring 1,000 more e-buses shortly, besides the only surviving tram network which has been operational since 1880. Also, 300 STU diesel buses are being converted into dedicated CNG buses.\u201d
\nThe possibility of CNG supply through a pipeline has gained momentum after intervention of the National Green Tribunal. \u201cWe will also convert the entire fleet of private buses to dedicated CNG buses in a phased manner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: The city\u2019s entire public transport will run on clean fuel \u2014 electricity, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and compressed natural gas (CNG) \u2014 by 2030, said state\u2019s transport minister Firhad Hakim on Wednesday. By public transport, he meant the bus fleet \u2014 both private and state transport undertakings (STUs), taxis and autos. This is certainly an ambitious departure from his earlier stance, when he set a 2030 target for the entire STU fleet to be EV only. Hakim was speaking at a panel discussion on accelerating electric mobility with green jobs and gender parity organised by Bengal Chamber of Commerce […]<\/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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449356","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=449356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}