The move is considered to be a boost for e-vehicle market in the city.
By Anil Tiwari
Karnataka government has announced compulsory charging points for e-vehicles at every mall and shopping complex. The move by the government is considered to be a boost to e-vehicle market in the city.
In the inauguration event of ‘e-Mobility and charging point
Infrastructure’ workshop, Jagdeesh Shetter, Minister of Large and Medium scale
industries said, “BESCOM will start operation of stations at 12 locations and
will also install 100 charging points at 80 different locations which can be
accessed by an app in advance to avoid any queue.”
“Karnataka electricity regulatory will make it mandatory for all upcoming
shopping malls and apartments to have e-vehicle charging point,” he added.
Gaurav Gupta, Principal Secretary of commerce and industries, Gov. of Karnataka
assured the manufacturers that government would help them in building
infrastructure and also Research and Development (R&D). He said, “A lot of
work has been done by Ministry of power in the field of evolving charging
specification infrastructure. Now I believe it has become a lot simpler to
charge your vehicle without any concerns which was not the case earlier.”
He further said that the government has identified the need to have an electric
vehicle cluster in which there would be space of accumulation. There would be
opportunities where bigger companies can interact with smaller ones, he added.
At present Bangalore is one of the biggest markets of the electric vehicle.
However, there are only a few charging points in the city. Only 4-5 people get
the opportunity to charge their vehicles every day. Commuters said that the
government’s step of installing more charging points in the city would help
people to charge their vehicles easily.
Mohammad Irfan, an electric vehicle user said, “This is a good initiative by
the government. Malls have a lot of free space so it is good if they install
charging points there. It is also an advantage for small startups who can
afford charging stations.”
“Karnataka is to be the biggest manufacturing hub for developing battery. The
government is sending a clear signal to industries for clean powered mobility
in Karnataka,” said Gaurav Gupta.
