UP to invite bids for 700 e-buses worth Rs 965 cr, Centre to finance 33%

As per state estimates, 200,000 charging stations will be needed over next few years to cater to the growing fleet of public and private EVs

The Yogi Adityanath government has cleared a proposal to ply 700 electric buses in 14 top cities of Uttar Pradesh, in a decision involving an investment of around Rs 965 crore. 

The state cabinet meeting, chaired by chief minister Adityanath in Lucknow last night, approved the proposal of implementing the electric bus proposal on ‘gross cost contract model’ by selecting the operator through an open-bidding process. The bidding document was also cleared by the cabinet.

Under phase-II of the Centre's Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles (FAME) Scheme, 11 cities, namely, Lucknow, Meerut, Prayagraj (Allahabad), Agra, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Varanasi,