Govt departments in race to take credit for electric vehicles

Ministries oppose NITI Aayog's EV programme stewardship

India’s drive towards becoming an electric vehicle (EV) market is proceeding shoulder to shoulder with another race. 

Government departments and ministries are in a race to own EVs and promote the cause of electric mobility in the world’s largest two-wheeler and fifth-biggest car market.

The NITI Aayog, the government’s policy think tank, had plans to release the country’s first EV policy in December and the draft was circulated among various ministries for comments. But ministries such as road transport and heavy industries are learnt to have objected to the think tank’s attempts to become an implementing body for