{"id":595725,"date":"2023-08-04T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T04:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=595725"},"modified":"2023-08-04T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T04:35:26","slug":"govt-to-bring-payment-security-mechanism-for-large-scale-e-bus-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-to-bring-payment-security-mechanism-for-large-scale-e-bus-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to bring payment security mechanism for large-scale e-bus rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government will come out with a &#8220;payment security mechanism&#8221; to support large-scale rollout of electric buses as it eyes a major transition towards green public transport across the country, Tarun Kapoor, advisor to the Prime Minister at the PMO, said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>He also emphasised on the need to bring down the cost of electric vehicles to accelerate their adoption. <\/p>\n<p>While the government will continue to provide subsidies like those being offered under the FAME-II scheme because the price difference is huge and it has to be bridged, &#8220;we have to look at ways and means to bring down the price also, because government subsidy cannot be forever&#8221;, he said, while addressing an Assocham conference on electric mobility here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government will come out with a &#8220;payment security mechanism&#8221; to support large-scale rollout of electric buses as it eyes a major transition towards green public transport across the country, Tarun Kapoor, advisor to the Prime Minister at the PMO, said on Thursday. He also emphasised on the need to bring down the cost of electric vehicles to accelerate their adoption. While the government will continue to provide subsidies like those being offered under the FAME-II scheme because the price difference is huge and it has to be bridged, &#8220;we have to look at ways and means to bring down [&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-595725","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\/595725","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=595725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}