Archive · 2 Jun 2025
India Plans Subsidies for 11,000 Electric Buses in Five Cities
The Indian government is working on a plan to help cities get more electric buses.
This plan involves giving money to help pay for 11,000 new electric buses.
These buses will be used in cities like Delhi, Bengaluru, and others.
The plan is part of a bigger project called PM E-Drive, which wants to put a lot of electric buses on the roads.
The government will provide money, with a total budget of over 10,000 crore rupees, to support this.
Some cities have already said they want the new buses, while others are still deciding.
The goal is to make it easier for people to travel in cities using electric buses.
The plan will run for about 10 years.
The Indian government is finalizing subsidies for 11,000 e-buses.
The scheme will be implemented over a 10-year period.
The PM E-Drive scheme has a total budgetary outlay of ₹10,800 crore.
Five cities have responded positively to the scheme.
The scheme targets cities with populations exceeding four million.
- Who
- The Union Government and the Minister for Heavy Industries H.D. Kumaraswamy are involved in the PM E-Drive scheme.
- What
- India is finalizing a subsidy structure for 11,000 electric buses across five cities under the PM E-Drive scheme.
- When
- The scheme will be implemented over a 10-year period.
- Where
- The scheme will be implemented in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Surat, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune.
- Why
- The PM E-Drive scheme aims to deploy electric buses for intra-city travel in cities with over four million people.
- Number of e-buses
- 11,000
- Allocation for e-buses
- ₹3,481 crore
- Total budgetary outlay
- ₹10,800 crore
- Number of cities in first phase
- Five
- Implementation period
- 10 years