Haryana to give subsidy for buying e-vehicles

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 22

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday said that in a bid to encourage use of e-vehicles in the state, the state government had decided to give subsidy to the people for purchasing e-vehicles. 

The government has also formulated a vehicle-scrap policy for the discontinuation of vehicles older than the prescribed period in the NCR region, said Khattar.

The Chief Minister said this while interacting with media after inaugurating an awareness exhibition on e-vehicles organised at the Civil Secretariat here on the occasion of ‘World Car-Free Day’.

While calling upon the people of the state to protect the environment, Khattar said the environment was getting polluted due to the increase in the number of vehicles.

People consider vehicles as status symbols, due to which employees and officers use them as the main mode of commuting even when they stay close to their offices, said the Chief Minister.

On the occasion of ‘World Car-Free Day’, the Chief Minister called upon people to take a pledge to adopt a car-pooling system or to travel on foot or cycle to nearby places.

The Chief Minister said while taking steps to reduce pollution levels, till now plying of CNG buses was being encouraged in Gurugram, but now the emphasis would be laid on running e-buses and e-autos there too.

Earlier, Khattar, Education Minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar, Transport Minister Mool Chand Sharma, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister JP Dalal and many MLAs cycled from the Chief Minister’s residence to the Punjab and Haryana Civil Secretariat.