Modi to gift 2 electric buses to MPs in Parliament today

December 21, 2015 10:27

PM Narendra Modi will today flag off two refurbished electric buses, inside Parliament complex at 1 pm.

"Two 15-seater buses electric buses, converted to battery from diesel will be flagged off by Prime Minister Modi in presence of Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on December 21 for MPs," an official source said.

The project, a brain-child of Gadkari, involves about Rs 10 crore expenditure and after the success of the pilot project steps would be taken for conversion of existing diesel buses across the country.

"An imported electric bus costs about Rs 1.75 crore whereas the one converted indigenously will cost about Rs 60 lakh, the price of which is likely to be reduced further on technology advancement," an official source said.

The source said the buses to be gifted to the Lok Sabha for lawmakers are the first proto-type developed by KPIT, Pune with consultations from Central Institute of Road Transport and the technology has been wholly developed in India.

Indian Space Research Organisation, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Madras are already in the process of developing such lithium-ion batteries. The lithium-ion batteries would be used to transform existing diesel buses into electric, Gadkari had earlier said.

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