India’s apex lawmaking authority Supreme Court has urged the central government to reply to a plea seeking details about the promotion and implementation of the Electric Vehicle policy along with the Adoption and manufacturing of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles scheme in India.
The plea was earlier heard by another apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S.A Bobde. According to leading media reports after having a brief look at the plea the jury was very keen to hold a discussion on the Electric vehicle policy with our union transport minister Nitin Gadkari regarding the issues being faced pertaining to the implementation of the electric vehicle policy in the country.
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The plea also consisted of names of countries like the Norway, Netherland, Sweden, USA, China where the adoption of Ev’s has turned out to be a success.
In countries like Norway, the purchase and road taxes are levied if a person buys an electric vehicle. while in the US the government provides tax credits on infrastructural investment like charging infrastructure along with consumer tax credits with purchase incentives also.
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Chief Justice S.A Bobde also added an important point on Mr Gadkari’s promise on converting public transport vehicles currently running on petrol and diesel into non-polluting electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles.
However, the at-present Modi government has been pushing really hard on promoting the use of clean and energy-efficient vehicles and has also introduced a handful of measure which also includes a $1.4 billion plan in order to make India a manufacturing hub for electric vehicles.
