Government launches E-AMRIT Portal
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Polity & Governance
- Published
16th Nov, 2021
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Context
Recently, India launched an electric vehicle awareness web portal called e-Amrit.
About
What is the e-AMRIT Portal?
- It is a ‘one-stop site’ containing all the information regarding adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in
- e-AMRIT portal stands for “Accelerated E-Mobility Transformation for Indian Transportation”.
- Developed by: This web portal was developed by NITI Aayog in association with the UK government as part of the India-UK Joint Roadmap 2030.
- Purpose: To create awareness regarding electric mobility in India.
Electric Vehicle
- An EV is a shortened acronym for an electric vehicle.
- EVs are vehicles that are either partially or fully powered on electric power.
- Electric vehicles have low running costs as they have less moving parts for maintaining and also very environmentally friendly as they use little or no fossil fuels (petrol or diesel).
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Features of the e-AMRIT portal
- Feasibility research on switching to EV
- Knowledge repository on EV
- Tools to calculate EV experience
- Information about EV businesses
Important schemes for creating an ecosystem for adoption of EVs
- In the recent past, India has taken many initiatives to accelerate the decarbonisation of transport and the adoption of electric mobility in the country.
- Some of the important schemes are:
- Faster Adoption of Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME) Scheme
- Production Linked Incentive Scheme