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100 charging points for e-vehicles

in offing in Noida
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is expected to be signed on Thursday
between Noida Authority and EESL, a joint venture of public sector undertakings
under the Union Ministry of Power, a senior official said.
PTI | July 24, 2019, 22:20 IST

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Noida:
Hundred
charging
stations for
electric
vehicles are
in the offing
for Noida,
where the
authority is
planning a
tie-up with a
According to the official, the authority is also planning to lease
five electric vehicles from EESL to be used for official purposes. government-
backed
agency for setting up infrastructure for mobility based on
clean energy.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is expected to be

signed on Thursday between Noida Authority and EESL, a
joint venture of public sector undertakings under the Union
Ministry of Power, a senior official said.

"Survey work is underway to finalise the spots where these

stations will come up. There will be 100 stations across
Noida. Three of them -- at Indira Gandhi Kala Kendra and
commercial hubs of Sector 18 and Sector 62 -- are proposed
to come up within a week of the signing of the MoU," an
authority official said.

The MoU will be signed in the presence of NOIDA

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Chairperson Alok Tandon, CEO Ritu Maheshwari and EESL

Managing Director Saurabh Kumar, the official said.

According to the official, the authority is also planning to lease

five electric vehicles from EESL to be used for official
purposes.

Work is underway at other six sites for charging stations.

Three of these stations will be on road, while three off road,
with each having a capacity of at least 11 kV, they said.

Vehicle growth in the country has been rapid in the recent

years, with ownership per 1,000 population increasing from
53 in 2001 to 167 in 2015, according to 2018 NITI
Aayogreport 'Zero Emission Vehicles: Towards a Policy
Framework'.

While stressing the need for switching to cleaner technology

in the transport sector, the report assumed that Rs 1.2 lakh
crore could be saved in imported crude oil if the two-wheelers
alone adopted electric mode of operation.

Earlier this year, the central government had issued a set of

guidelines to set up charging stations for electric vehicles
across the country, outlining ways to build such fuelling points
every 25 km.

According to the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry,

the government expects 25 per cent of the total vehicles on
roads will be electric vehicles by 2030, necessitating to erect
robust electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure across the
country.

The ministry had made amendments to the Model Building

Byelaws (MBBL) 2016 and the Urban Regional Development
Plans Formulation and Implementation (URDPFI) Guidelines
2014, making provisions for establishing EV charging
infrastructure.

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