Lok Sabha Question No. 1762 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-05
Subject: PM e-Bus Sewa Yojana
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Ananta Nayak

## MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1762

## TO BE ANSWERED ON DECEMBER 05, 2024

## PM e-BUS SEWA YOJANA

## NO. 1762.     SHRI ANANTA NAYAK:

Will the Minister of HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any plan to run 20,000 e-buses in more than 160 cities across the country;
- (b) if so, the details for the cities of Odisha including the salient features of the scheme thereof;
- (c) the names of the cities selected initially for the said purpose, including the cities of Odisha and particularly from Keonjhar district;
- (d) whether the Government has sanctioned and released any fund under the said scheme and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the total amount of expenditure likely to be incurred on procurement and operation of the said e-buses in the country?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF SATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI TOKHAN SAHU)

- (a)   Ministry  of  Housing  &  Urban  Affairs  launched  a  Centrally  Sponsored Scheme titled as 'PM-eBus Sewa' on 16 th  August 2023 for deploying 10,000 electric buses with a Central Assistance of Rs 20,000 crore.

- (b)   Four  hundred  buses  have  been  sanctioned  for  5  cities  of  Odisha  (100 buses  each  for  Bhubaneshwar,  Cuttack,  Rourkela  and  50  buses  each  for Berhampur and Sambalpur). The Scheme, which was launched on 16 th August 2023,  aims  to  augment  urban  bus  operations  in  urban  areas  with  Central Assistance (CA) of Rs.20,000 crore for deploying 10,000 electric buses on PPP  model.  Cities  with  a  population  between  3-40  lakhs  and  other  State Capitals with less than 3 lakh population as per 2011 census including Hilly capitals cities, NER State capital cities and UT capital cities, are eligible to participate in the scheme. Eligibility of buses per city depends on the city's population: 50 buses for a population of 3-5 lakh population and other State Capitals with less than 3 lakhs population, 100 buses for a population of 520 lakh; and 150 buses for a population of 20-40 lakh. CA for operation of ebuses will be provided on per kilometre (km) basis for 10 years. Operation support of Rs. 24, 22, 20 per km shall be provided for standard (12m), midi (9m)  and  mini  (7m)  buses  respectively.  As  per  the  Scheme  guidelines, Central Assistance for Behind-The-Meter power infrastructure is 100% and Central  Assistance  for Civil  infrastructure  of  Depot  is 60% to  cities  of States, 90% to capital cities of Hilly  States/North-East  States/UTs  with legislature and 100%to capital cities of UTs without legislature. The validity of the Scheme is upto March, 2037.
- (c)     Total  88  cities  have  applied  and  selected  including  cities  of  Odisha under the Scheme is attached as ANNEXURE-I.
- (d)    As  on  date,  Rs  983.75crore  has  been  sanctioned  and  Rs  438  Cr.  has been released in Financial Year 2024-25.
- (e)    Under  PM-eBus  Sewa  scheme,  a  PPP  operator/Original  Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) procures, maintains and operates the e-buses on Gross Cost Contract (GCC) model. The PPP operator receives payment against the billed  kms  on  the  basis  of  per-km  fee  for  providing  bus  service.  The expenditure on GCC contracts for procurement, maintenance and operation of electric buses will depend on the discovered per-km fee and kms billed for the operation of electric buses under the scheme.

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| List of Participating Cities   | List of Participating Cities   | List of Participating Cities   |
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| S.No.                          | State/ UT                      | City                           |
| 1                              | Chandigarh                     | Chandigarh                     |
| 2                              | Chandigarh                     | Gandhinagar                    |
| 3                              | Chandigarh                     | Rajkot                         |
| 4                              | Chandigarh                     | Vadodara                       |
| 5                              | Gujarat                        | Bhavnagar                      |
| 6                              | Chandigarh                     | Jamnagar                       |
| 7                              | Chandigarh                     | Junagadh                       |
| 8                              | Haryana                        | Gurugram                       |
| 9                              | Haryana                        | Faridabad                      |
| 10                             | Haryana                        | Hisar                          |
| 11                             | Haryana                        | Karnal                         |
| 12                             | Haryana                        | Panipat                        |
| 13                             | Haryana                        | Yamuna Nagar                   |
| 14                             | Haryana                        | Rohtak                         |
| 15                             | J&K                            | Srinagar                       |
| 16                             | J&K                            | Jammu                          |
| 17                             | Maharastra                     | Nagpur                         |
| 18                             | Maharastra                     | Chhatrapati Sambhaji nagar     |
| 19                             | Maharastra                     | Kalyan Dombivli                |
| 20                             | Maharastra                     | Nashik                         |
| 21                             | Maharastra                     | Thane                          |
| 22                             | Maharastra                     | Vasai Virar                    |
| 23                             | Maharastra                     | Amravati                       |
| 24                             | Maharastra                     | Bhiwandi                       |
| 25                             | Maharastra                     | Kolhapur                       |
| 26                             | Maharastra                     | Mira Bhayandar                 |
| 27                             | Maharastra                     | Solapur                        |
| 28                             | Maharastra                     | Ullhasnagr                     |
| 29                             | Maharastra                     | Ahmednagar                     |
| 30                             | Maharastra                     | Latur                          |
| 31                             | Maharastra                     | Sangli                         |
| 32                             | Maharastra                     | Akola                          |
| 33                             | Maharastra                     | Dhule                          |

## Annexure I

|   35 |                | Jalgaon     |
|------|----------------|-------------|
|   36 |                | Chandrapur  |
|   37 |                | Malegaon    |
|   38 |                | Parbhani    |
|   39 |                | Bhubaneswar |
|   40 |                | Cuttack     |
|   41 | Odisha         | Rourkela    |
|   42 |                | Berhampur   |
|   43 |                | Sambalpur   |
|   44 | Punjab         | Amritsar    |
|   45 | Punjab         | Jalandhar   |
|   46 | Punjab         | Patiala     |
|   47 | Punjab         | Ludhiana    |
|   48 | Meghalaya      | Shillong    |
|   49 | Bihar          | Patna       |
|   50 | Bihar          | Darbhanga   |
|   51 | Bihar          | Bhagalpur   |
|   52 | Bihar          | Gaya        |
|   53 | Bihar          | Muzaffarpur |
|   54 | Bihar          | Purnea      |
|   55 | Puducherry     | Puducherry  |
|   56 | Assam          | Guwahati    |
|   57 | Ladakh         | Leh         |
|   58 | Madhya Pradesh | Indore      |
|   59 | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal      |
|   60 | Madhya Pradesh | Jabalpur    |
|   61 | Madhya Pradesh | Gwalior     |
|   62 | Madhya Pradesh | Ujjain      |
|   63 | Madhya Pradesh | Sagar       |
|   64 | Rajasthan      | Ajmer       |
|   65 | Rajasthan      | Alwar       |
|   66 | Rajasthan      | Bikaner     |
|   67 | Rajasthan      | Bhilwara    |
|   68 | Rajasthan      | Jaipur      |
|   69 | Rajasthan      | Jodhpur     |
|   70 | Rajasthan      | Kota        |
|   71 |                | Udaipur     |
|   72 | Chhattisgarh   | Bilaspur    |
|   73 | Chhattisgarh   | Bhilai      |
|   74 | Chhattisgarh   | Korba       |
|   75 | Chhattisgarh   | Raipur      |
|   76 | Uttarakhand    | Dehradun    |
|   77 | Uttarakhand    | Haridwar    |
|   78 | Andhra Pradesh | Amravati    |

| 79    | Anantapur     |
|-------|---------------|
| 80    | Kadapa        |
| 81    | Kakinada      |
| 82    | Kurnool       |
| 83    | Rajahmundry   |
| 84    | Tirupati      |
| 85    | Nellore       |
| 86    | Guntur        |
| 87    | Vijayawada    |
| 88    | Visakhapatnam |
| Total | 88            |