- Saturday, March 01, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
India should put an to use of four-wheel vehicles powered by diesel by 2027 and switch to electric and gas-fuelled vehicles in cities that are home to more than a million people and polluted towns in a bid to reduce emissions, a panel from the country’s oil ministry has recommended, Reuters reported.
The South Asian economy is one of the largest emitters of green-house gases and wants to generate 40 per cent of its electricity from renewables to achieve its net-zero goal by 2070.
“By 2030, no city buses should be added which are not electric…diesel buses for city transport should not be added from 2024 onwards,” the panel said in a report that was posted on the ministry’s website.
It was, however, not clear whether the ministry would seek the cabinet’s approval to carry out the recommendations of the Energy Transition Advisory Committee, which is led by Tarun Kapoor, a former oil secretary, the Reuters report added.
The panel said that the government should consider “targeted extension” of incentives given under Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Scheme to boost use of electric vehicles, the report added.
In India, diesel accounts for about two-fifths of refined oil consumption and 80 per cent of it is used in the transport sector.
