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Thiruvananthapuram: Amid pollution concerns and rising oil prices, the Kerala government will take steps to increase the number of electric vehicles to ten lakh by 2022, Finance Minister Dr Thomas Issac announced in the State Budget 2019-20 presented at the State Assembly on Thursday.
To create a model, the state-owned KSRTC will switch over to electric buses. The electric buses tried at Pampa–Nilakkal has proved that this change will bring only profit to KSRTC.
In the first phase, all the services of KURTC in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation will be changed to electric buses. With this, Thiruvananthapuram will be the first city in India having all buses e-vehicle. The Water Transport Corporation also has started using solar boats.
Source: uniindia
