The UT administration has constituted a three-member committee to rearrange the last word draft of the Electrical Automobile (EV) Coverage.
The members of the committee could be deputy commissioner, MC commissioner and chief authorities officer of the Chandigarh Renewable Power and Science and Know-how (CREST).
On Tuesday, CREST submitted a draft protection in a gathering chaired by UT adviser Dharam Pal, who requested the draft to be extra fine-tuned and financial implications of it extra studied.
“The committee will look at the monetary implications of the incentives to be supplied below the coverage. It’ll additionally analyse the sample within the different states the place such coverage has been formulated,” said a UT official.
Earlier, the UT transport division had moreover prepared a draft EV protection. However later this yr, the CREST was entrusted with finalising the protection.
Below the proposed protection, in order to incentivise purchasing for {of electrical} vehicles, the registration cost, freeway tax and 50% MC parking charges usually tend to be waived off.
The protection moreover envisages making registration of private and enterprise e-vehicles easier and sooner by offering “speedy on-line registration.” Registration could be allowed for two, three, and four-wheelers retrofitted with electrical motors.
“The goal of the coverage is to encourage e-vehicles to cut back air pollution within the metropolis by bringing down emissions from the transport sector,” said the official.
