New Delhi, July 25 -- An amount of Rs 4,391 crore has been allocated towards deployment of 14,028 e-buses under the PM E-DRIVE Scheme. This will result in significant reduction in emissions, Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma, minister of state for heavy industries told the Rajya Sabha.

Initially, nine cities with population of more than four million namely Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Surat, and Pune will be targeted under the scheme, he added.

Andhra EV charging Under the FAME-II Scheme, a total of 494 fast EV charging stations (EVCS) with a capacity of greater than or equal to 60 kW have been installed in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Of these 95 EVCS have been commissioned as on July 1, 2025.

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