{"id":584287,"date":"2023-06-14T09:45:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T04:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=584287"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:43:41","slug":"centre-to-float-tender-for-3500-electric-buses-in-nine-big-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-to-float-tender-for-3500-electric-buses-in-nine-big-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre to float tender for 3,500 electric buses in nine big cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The central government is planning to come up with an electric bus (e-bus) tender to procure around 3,500 new e-buses for nine cities with a population over 4 million each, Business Standard has learnt. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes a month after the Ministry of Heavy Industries\u2019 (MHI\u2019s) decision to raise the funding support for e-buses to Rs 4,307 crore, from the budgeted Rs 3,545 crore. In May, the ministry slashed subsidies for three-wheelers, four-wheelers, and charging infrastructure as part of a major rejig of the \u20b910,000-crore electric vehicle (EV) incentive scheme &#8212; Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &amp;) Electric Vehicles (FAME-II).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The central government is planning to come up with an electric bus (e-bus) tender to procure around 3,500 new e-buses for nine cities with a population over 4 million each, Business Standard has learnt. The move comes a month after the Ministry of Heavy Industries\u2019 (MHI\u2019s) decision to raise the funding support for e-buses to Rs 4,307 crore, from the budgeted Rs 3,545 crore. In May, the ministry slashed subsidies for three-wheelers, four-wheelers, and charging infrastructure as part of a major rejig of the \u20b910,000-crore electric vehicle (EV) incentive scheme &#8212; Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &amp;) Electric Vehicles [&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-584287","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\/584287","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=584287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}