Pakistan, Dec. 26 -- Despite auto assemblers' reservations regarding the National Electric Vehicle Policy (NEVP), the government has aimed at making it operational by January 2020.

The federal cabinetapprovedNEVP on Nov 5 and the Ministry for Climate Change (MoCC) has summoned an inter-ministerial meeting on Thursday in Islamabad to discuss the same.

The MoCC has informed relevant ministries and government departments that the "NEVP needs to be operational by January 2020 by validation of incentive packages through the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC)."

Prime Minister Imran Khan has already announced the early implementation of NEVP, especially for two- and three-wheelers as well as buses for public transport in order to prevent s...