The Department of Heavy Industry has approved the sanction of 5595 electric buses to 64 Cities. The State Government Entities, State Transport Undertakings (STUs)for intra-city and intercity operation under FAME India scheme phase II in order to give a further push to clean mobility in public transportation.
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The Department had invited the Expression of Interest (EoI) from million-plus cities, smart cities, State and Union Territory capitals and cities from special category states for submission of proposal for deployment of electric buses on an operational cost basis.
Proposals from 26 States and Union Territory for the deployment of 14988 e-Buses were received. After the evaluation of these proposals as per Expression of Interest (EoI), on the advice of Project Implementation and Sanctioning Committee (PISC), the Government sanctioned 5095 electric buses to 64 Cities.
The State Transport Corporations for intra-city operation proposed 400 electric buses for intercity operation and 100 electric buses for last-mile connectivity to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).
Each selected City, State or Union Territory is required initiating the procurement process in a time-bound manner for the deployment of sanctioned electric buses on an operational cost basis.
As per EoI, buses that satisfy required localisation level and technical eligibility notified under FAME India scheme phase II will be eligible for funding under the FAME India scheme phase II.
These buses will run about 4 billion kilometers during their contract period and are expected to save cumulatively about 1.2 billion liters of fuel over the contract period, which will result into avoidance of 2.6 million tonnes of CO2 emission.
