Bhubaneswar: The Department of Heavy Industries today sanctioned 2,636 charging stations including 18 in Odisha under FAME India (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India) scheme phase II.
A highest of 317 Electric Vehicle charging stations have been allotted to Maharashtra, 266 in Andhra Pradesh, 256 in Tamil Nadu, 228 in Gujarat, 205 in Rajasthan and 207 in Uttar Pradesh.
As per reports, 172 charging stations will come up in Karnataka, 159 in Madhya Pradesh, 141 in West Bengal, 138 in Telangana, 131 in Kerala, 72 in Delhi, 70 in Chandigarh, 50 in Haryana, 40 in Meghalaya, 37 in Bihar, 29 in Sikkim, 25 each in Jammu & Kashmir and Chhattisgarh, 20 in Assam and 10 each in Uttarakhand, Puducherry and Himachal Pradesh.
The Department of Heavy Industries has sanctioned Aa total of 2636 charging stations in 62 cities across 24 States/UTs under FAME India (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India) phase II project.
Senior officials informed that sanction letters to the selected entities will be issued in phases after ensuring the availability of land for charging stations, signing of necessary agreements and MoU with concerned partner organizations like city municipal corporation, Discoms and oil companies.
Subsequently, each selected public entities are required to initiate the procurement process in a time bound manner for deployment of sanctioned charging stations.
Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Prakash Javadekar said.”In future at least one charging station will be available in most of the selected cities in a grid of 4 Km X 4 km.”
Javadekar further stated that it will boost the confidence of users of Electric Vehicles and also encourage the OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) to launch the new electric vehicle models due to the lack of charging infrastructure.
Department of Heavy Industry had earlier invited Expression of Interest (EoI) from million-plus cities, smart cities, State/UT capitals and cities from special category states for submission of proposal for availing incentives under FAME India Scheme Phase II for deployment of EV charging infrastructure within Cities.
Official sources informed that 106 proposals from Public/Private Entities for the deployment of about 7000 EV charging stations were received. After evaluation and advice of the Project Implementation and Sanctioning Committee (PISC), the Government sanctioned 2636 charging stations to 62 cities submitted by 19 public entities for 24 states.