Did you know that Lucknow is soon going to become the first city in UP to implement the E-Mobility Plan? As per officials, Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of electronically run vehicles in the country i.e. 4.5 lakh, following which a comprehensive E-Mobility Plan will be implement across 17 Municipal Corporations including the one at Lucknow.
The city’s public transport will be equipped with E-Vehicles running from railway, airport, bus stand, metro to anywhere. At the same time, the garbage department will also deploy EV trucks.
Lucknow selected to be a model for other cities
Recently, the UP Government, Asian Development Bank and NITI Aayog met for a meeting at Taj Hotel, Lucknow. Here, plans were chalked out to launch better public transport system at 5 prominent cities of UP in a year along with a new Electric Vehicle Awareness Portal. The fleet of electric buses in Kanpur, Agra, Varanasi, Ayodhya and Lucknow will go up from the current 750 to 2,500 within a year.
Lucknow has been selected for the state’s first e-mobility plan city and become a model for other cities. The Industrial Development Department, Asian Development Bank and NITI Aayog, in collaboration with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have prepared the E-Mobility Plan specifically for Lucknow.
