{"id":658102,"date":"2026-01-29T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658102"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:47:52","slug":"ev-charging-stations-a-must-at-msrtc-plots-with-retail-fuel-outlets-pratap-sarnaik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ev-charging-stations-a-must-at-msrtc-plots-with-retail-fuel-outlets-pratap-sarnaik\/","title":{"rendered":"EV charging stations a must at MSRTC plots with retail fuel outlets: Pratap Sarnaik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations will now be a mandatory first step at any retail fuel outlet being developed on Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) land under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, MSRTC chairman and state transport minister Pratap Sarnaik announced on Tuesday after convening an ST board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Sarnaik said officials were directed to prioritise EV charging infrastructure and create robust facilities capable of supporting electric buses, signalling a sharper shift towards cleaner mobility even as the corporation continued to depend heavily on diesel operations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations will now be a mandatory first step at any retail fuel outlet being developed on Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) land under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, MSRTC chairman and state transport minister Pratap Sarnaik announced on Tuesday after convening an ST board meeting. Sarnaik said officials were directed to prioritise EV charging infrastructure and create robust facilities capable of supporting electric buses, signalling a sharper shift towards cleaner mobility even as the corporation continued to depend heavily on diesel operations.<\/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-658102","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\/658102","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=658102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}