Centre Okays 10,900 Electric Buses For Five Cities

New Delhi: The Ministry of Heavy Industries on Thursday confident that roughly 4,500 electrical buses shall be supplied to Bengaluru, 2,000 to Hyderabad, 2,800 to Delhi, 1,000 to Ahmedabad and 600 to Surat below the present section of the PM e-Drive Scheme. The resolution used to be taken at a gathering chaired by way of Union Minister for Heavy Industries H.D. Kumaraswamy at the rollout of electrical buses.

“The session focused on the states of Telangana, Karnataka, Delhi, and Gujarat—marking a strong step forward in advancing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for clean and inclusive urban transport solutions across India,” in keeping with an professional remark issued after the assembly.

“Thanks to the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is now taking bold strides toward sustainable urban mobility. From Bengaluru to Delhi, cities are actively embracing electric buses to make public transport cleaner, smarter, and more efficient,” mentioned Kumaraswamy.

“We are not merely allocating electric buses—we are shaping the future of India’s transport system with innovation and environmental consciousness,” the Union Minister mentioned.

“With close coordination between the Centre and states like Telangana, Karnataka, Delhi, and Gujarat, we are determined to deliver on the PM e-Drive promise,” he added.

The PM e-Drive initiative objectives to deploy 14,028 electrical buses with a complete monetary outlay of Rs 10,900 crore over a two-year length from April 2024 to March 2026.

The minister mentioned the scheme represents probably the most international’s greatest nationwide efforts to impress public delivery at scale and the federal government used to be dedicated to well timed supply, operational readiness, and strategic partnerships with all collaborating states.

The Ministry of Heavy Industry (MHI) has additionally offered E-vouchers for EV consumers to avail the call for incentive below the scheme.

Under the PM e-drive scheme an allocation of Rs 500 crore each and every has been executed for the deployment of e-ambulances and e-trucks as neatly. This is new initiative of the Centre to advertise the usage of e-ambulances for relaxed affected person delivery.

Similarly, e-trucks have additionally been offered below the scheme since vans are main participants to air air pollution. To avail subsidy on e-truck submission of a scrapping certificates from Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) authorized cars scrapping centres (RVSF) has been made obligatory.