Govt working towards India making transition to 100% e-vehicles by 2030: Piyush Goyal

New Delhi, Mar 26 (KNN) A small working group under the leadership of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has been created, a move towards evaluating the possibility of India making the transition to 100 per cent electric vehicles by 2030, said Union Minister Piyush Goyal.

This programme is going to be on a self-financing model and will look at monetizing savings that consumers have on petroleum products, he said.

Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy was speaking at the session, “Making India a Global Economic Superpower” at the Conference on Young Indians, on Friday.

Elaborating on the need to take a holistic and 360 degree view of the various programmes being implemented by the Government Goyal said, “There is a need to recognize the opportunities in the ecosystem and look at how these can be converted into an actionable agenda. If the various programmes that the Government of India has initiated in the last 22 months are seen in isolation, they may not have that much of an impact. But if we realise how these various programmes (Skill India programme, the Jan Dhan Yojna, the Mudra Yojna, Mission Innovation, etc.) integrate and work in consortium with each other then the benefits of all these programmes will integrate into a brighter tomorrow for the youth of India.

Discussing the key role innovation and access to technologies will play in moving towards a developed country he said, “If we can look at getting best technologies across sectors like has been done in the power sector, use economies of scale, and incentivize manufacturing this will help India leapfrog inefficient technologies, assets and practices and deploy ones that are more efficient and less emission intensive.” (With PIB Inputs)