Greater than 18 lakh electrical automobiles registered in India; Delhi, UP main states: Nitin Gadkari in Rajya Sabha | Electrical Automobiles Information

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday mentioned greater than 18 lakh electrical automobiles are registered within the nation, with Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Maharashtra rising because the main states in EV gross sales. The street transport and highways minister, in a written reply within the Rajya Sabha, mentioned the utmost variety of electrical automobiles has been registered in Uttar Pradesh (4,14,978), adopted by Delhi (1,83,74) and Maharashtra (1,79,087). Gadkari additional mentioned Maharashtra has the utmost variety of operational public EV charging stations (PCS) at 660, adopted by Delhi (539) and Tamil Nadu (439).

A complete of 5,151 public EV charging stations are operational in India, he added. Replying to a separate query, Gadkari mentioned with implementation of the digital charge assortment system, site visitors congestion at charge plazas at highways has been lowered considerably.

“In an effort to get rid of any congestion alongside Nationwide Highways, Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is engaged on implementation of barrierless consumer charge assortment system primarily based on superior applied sciences,” he mentioned, including that NHAI has appointed an company for an in depth research on Computerized Quantity Plate Recognition (ANPR) expertise.

In accordance with the minister, a pilot undertaking of the ANPR-based system has been applied alongside stretches of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway. On this system, relevant consumer charges is deducted from FASTags primarily based on the entry and exit of the automobiles as captured by ANPR cameras.

Replying to a different query, Gadkari mentioned there are 719 initiatives throughout numerous states the place development works on Nationwide Highways was delayed to some extent as a result of protracted monsoon in lots of states and the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the Char Dham street undertaking, Gadkari mentioned out of 53 packages protecting a complete size of 825 kms in Uttarakhand, 43 packages with a complete size of 683 km have been sanctioned.

“Out of those, 21 packages protecting a size of 291 km are full 2 packages are but to be awarded, 1 package deal was de-sanctioned and stability 19 packages protecting a size of 366 km are in several levels of progress,” he added.

The Char Dham street undertaking was initially scheduled for completion by March 2022. Nevertheless, the programme was delayed primarily as a result of litigation associated to forest and setting clearance in numerous courts.

This undertaking is being reviewed/monitored by a Excessive Powered Committee (HPC) for non-strategic roads (Rudrarprayag ? Gaurikund and Dharasu Bend ? Jankichatti) and an oversight committee for strategic roads (Rishikesh ? Mana, Rishikesh ? Gangotri and Tanakpur ? Pithoragarh) constituted as per the route of the Supreme Courtroom.

Gadkari famous that the sanction and completion of the stability a part of the undertaking will depend on finalisation of Detailed Venture Stories (DPRs) and execution of the works as per the instructions of the committee.