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Flagship FAME India

HARIT YATRA

FAME INDIA

BRINGING SILENT REVOLUTION

The Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicle Scheme (FAME), launched to
promote electric and hybrid vehicles, is playing an essential role in making India self-reliant
in the field of affordable and green transportation. Users of private two-wheelers and four-
wheelers are increasing due to government assistance. Due to this, the poor and middle class
in the cities are getting freedom from smoky buses. The Fame India scheme, launched on April
1, 2015, is providing subsidies to the public on one hand, and on the other, the targets of the
National Fuel Security Mission and India's Net Zero goal are getting stronger.

he Central Government launched the More than 2.80 lakh electric vehicles
National Electric Mobility Mission Plan-2020 launched in the first phase
Tin 2013 for the promotion of hybrid and
electric vehicles and for the purposes of national Under the first phase of the scheme, 2.8 lakh
fuel security. As part of this, the Ministry of Heavy electric and hybrid vehicles were purchased for
Industries launched the FAME India scheme in which a subsidy of Rs 359 crore was given. With a
2015 to rapidly scale up the manufacturing and government expenditure of Rs 280 crore, 425 electric
and hybrid buses have been put in service. The
use of hybrid and electric vehicles. Its first phase infrastructure proposal for 520 charging stations
started in 2015 and lasted till March 31, 2019, for was approved to strengthen the infrastructure.
which a budget provision of Rs 895 crore was made.
It was focused on four objectives- technology
development, demand boost, pilot project, and Phase II till December 2022
developing charging infrastructure. Subsidy to more than 7.66 lakh vehicles
The goal of net zero carbon emissions and the In the second phase of the scheme, a subsidy of Rs
resolve to save foreign exchange spent on fuel 3,311 crore has been given for more than 7.66 lakh
imports got a boost from the first phase. When the electric vehicles by December 2022. Similarly, 6315
number of buyers of electric vehicles increased, e-buses for 65 cities and 2877 charging stations in
the state governments also moved forward to 68 cities have also been approved. During this, 132
put electric buses into service. In view of this, the models of electric vehicles have been registered.
central government not only increased the charging

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