Lok Sabha Question No. 3664 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-24
Subject: Electric Vehicles Deployed in Ministries
Ministry: POWER
Asked by: Uttam Kumar Nalamada Reddy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3664 ANSWERED ON 24.03.2022

## ELECTRIC VEHICLES DEPLOYED IN MINISTRIES

3664.  SHRI UTTAM KUMAR REDDY NALAMADA:

Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state:

(a) whether  a  decision  has  been  taken  to  change  all  the  Government  vehicles  to electric and if so, whether the Ministry of Power has notified all Ministries regarding the same;

(b) the total number of vehicles deployed in the Ministries and other offices State/UT and department-wise;

(c) the  status  of  the  aggregation  of  demand  by  Energy  Efficiency  Services  Limited (EESL) for three-wheelers and electric buses as per the modified Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles (FAME) Phase-II scheme;

(d) the number of vehicles aggregated by EESL that have not been deployed due to lack of funds;

(e) whether the Government has considered affordable financing rates to kick start the programme and if so, the details thereof;

(f) the  steps  being  taken  by  the  Government  to  ensure  compliance  with  the remodelled  FAME  Phase-II  scheme  and  the  decision  to  replace  all  the  Government vehicles with Electric Vehicles (EVs);

(g) the quantum of funds allocated for the same; and

(h) the target of EVs set by the Government for the next three years?

## A N S W E R

THE MINISTER OF POWER AND NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY

(SHRI R.K. SINGH)

(a) : Ministry of Power has requested all the Ministries in Government of India and the State Governments to join the initiative on transformative electric mobility and advise their respective Departments to shift their fleet of official vehicles from present Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) based Vehicles to Electric Vehicles.

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(b) : The  total  number  of  vehicles  in  use  by  the  Government/Government agencies and the number of electrical vehicles out of the said vehicles as on 04.02.2022 is mentioned in Annexure.

(c) : Energy  Efficiency  Services  Limited  (EESL)  through  its  wholly  owned subsidiary CESL (Convergence Energy Services Limited), undertook consultations with State Transport Utilities (STUs), State Governments, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs),  NITI  Aayog  etc.  to  aggregate  demand  of  5,450  buses  for  deployment  on Operating expenses (OPEX) basis across 9 major cities in India (having population over 4 million). CESL floated a unified tender on 20 th  January 2022 towards aggregation of ebuses. In respect of Electric 3 Wheelers (E3W), CESL has floated a tender to aggregate demand  for  one  lakh  E3W  as  per  the  modified  Faster  Adoption  and  Manufacturing  of (Hybrid  &)  Electric  Vehicles  (FAME)  Phase-II  scheme.  The  aggregation  of  E3W  has resulted into price reduction upto 22% in comparison to the retail segment.

(d) & (e) : EESL through CESL has received an aggregated demand of 930 numbers of electric  4 Wheelers (e4Ws) from various Government departments at Central and State level.  Further,  25,000  electric  two  wheelers  have  been  aggregated  for  Government employees of Andhra Pradesh. Also, CESL has aggregated a demand of 82,000 electric three wheelers of various categories.  EESL has decided that it would do aggregation of demand only and would not get into financing the EVs in any capacity.

(f) to (h) : Ministry  of  Heavy  Industries  is  administering  phase-II  of  Faster  Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles to promote adoption of electric/ hybrid vehicles  in  India  for  a  period  of  5  years  w.e.f.  01 st   April,  2019  with  a  total  budgetary support of Rs.10,000 crore. This phase focusses on supporting electrification of public & shared transportation and aims to support, through subsidies, 7090 e-Buses, 5 lakh e-3 Wheelers,  55000  e-4  Wheeler  Passenger  Cars  and  10  lakh  e-2  Wheelers.  Further,  the following  amendments    have  been  made  in  the  FAME  India  Scheme  to  promote ecosystem of electric vehicles:

- i. Aggregation will be the key method for bringing the upfront cost of 3W EV at an affordable level and at par with ICE 3 Wheelers.
- ii. For  Electric  Buses,  4  million  plus  cities  (Mumbai,  Delhi,  Bangalore,  Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Surat and Pune) are focus areas.
- iii. For Electric 2 Wheelers, demand Incentive will be @ Rs.15000/- per KWh.
- iv. The cap on incentives for Electric 2 Wheelers will be 40% of the cost of vehicles. After re-modelling of the scheme weekly sale of e-2W have increased over @ 9000 in the month of March 22 from sale of e2W @ 2000 per month earlier.

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ANNEXURE ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION

NO.3664   ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 24.03.2022 **************

Total number of vehicles deployed in the Ministries and other offices State/UT and department- wise [as on 04.02.2022]

| Sl. No.   | Government Agency/Dept.   | Total number of vehicles in use by the Government   | Number of electrical vehicles out of the vehicles used by the Government   |
|-----------|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1         | AUTONOMOUS BODY           | 37,573                                              | 755                                                                        |
| 2         | CENTRAL GOVERNMENT        | 98,461                                              | 578                                                                        |
| 3         | GOVT UNDERTAKING          | 1,64,748                                            | 1,273                                                                      |
| 4         | LOCAL AUTHORITY           | 29,083                                              | 1,352                                                                      |
| 5         | POLICE DEPARTMENT         | 16,117                                              | 3                                                                          |
| 6         | STATE GOVERNMENT          | 3,86,758                                            | 1,237                                                                      |
| 7         | STATE TRANSPORT CORP/DEPT | 1,14,804                                            | 186                                                                        |
|           | GRAND TOTAL               | 8,47,544                                            | 5,384                                                                      |

The details given are for digitized vehicle records as per centralized Vahan 4 portal of Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH).

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