Union Street Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday claimed far more than 2.78 lakh electric motor vehicles have been registered in the nation in 2023 calendar 12 months so considerably.
Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are in the approach of migrating to Vahan portal and hence their data on EV registration is partially incorporated whilst Telangana and Lakshadweep information is not accessible on the portal, Gadkari mentioned in a penned reply to the Lok Sabha.
In accordance to the information on the portal, the registration of electric powered vehicles (EVs) in India rose to 10,20,679 in 2022 from 3,29,808 in 2021.
Replying to a separate question, Gadkari mentioned Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has planted 344.27 lakh tress under Green Highways Plan in the course of the period 2016-17 to 2022-23 (up to February 2023).
Responding to yet another query, he reported NHAI envisions improvement of wayside features (WSAs) at each 30-40 kilometre across brownfield national highways and greenfield expressways.
Until day, 156 WSAs have been awarded, Gadkari additional.
In accordance to Gadkari, in buy to boost relieve of doing small business for non-public buyers, the ministry has facilitated the purposes for grant of registration certification to set up automatic testing stations and registered vehicle scrapping facilities through Countrywide One Window Procedure (NSWS).
Currently, 18 states/UTs are dwell on NSWS for accepting apps for Voluntary Auto-Fleet Modernisation Programme (V-VMP), the minister said.
The states/UTs are living on NSWS include things like Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, amongst other individuals.
He stated the governing administration has been given purposes from 79 buyers for location up registered car or truck scrapping services across 17 states out of which, 48 are accredited by the respective states.
As for each the information supplied by the minister, 8,220 previous motor vehicles have been scrapped in the state from January 2022 till March 20 2023. The most old motor vehicles ended up scrapped in Uttar Pradesh (6,247), followed by Gujarat (1,244 ) and Assam (357).
