{"id":479409,"date":"2022-03-28T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T04:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=479409"},"modified":"2022-03-28T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T04:51:42","slug":"bmc-gives-best-rs-264-crore-to-support-conversion-of-fleet-into-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bmc-gives-best-rs-264-crore-to-support-conversion-of-fleet-into-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC gives BEST Rs 264 crore to support conversion of fleet into EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has paid Rs 264 crore this year to support the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking\u2019s plan to procure electric vehicles (EVs). The civic body has decided to pay Rs 940 crore over five years to help BEST reduce carbon emissions by converting the entire fleet of diesel buses into EVs. <\/p>\n<p>The BMC had received a Rs 264 crore financial grant from the central government for 2021-22 under the 15th Finance Commission\u2019s recommendation for encouraging EVs, reducing air pollution and implementing a clean air programme. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all, the BMC is set to receive Rs 940 crore in the next five years. The first instalment of Rs 264 crore was transferred to BEST in the first week of March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has paid Rs 264 crore this year to support the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking\u2019s plan to procure electric vehicles (EVs). The civic body has decided to pay Rs 940 crore over five years to help BEST reduce carbon emissions by converting the entire fleet of diesel buses into EVs. The BMC had received a Rs 264 crore financial grant from the central government for 2021-22 under the 15th Finance Commission\u2019s recommendation for encouraging EVs, reducing air pollution and implementing a clean air programme. \u201cIn all, the BMC is set to receive Rs [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479409","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=479409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}