Transport dept eyes policy based on electric vehicles

Kolkata | Monday | 2nd March, 2020

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KOLKATA: The state Transport department is drafting an electric vehicle based transport policy, in a bid to reduce the pollution caused by harmful vehicular emissions. "We have to check the supply and demand ratio of the electric vehicles. "We are discussing with different departments and experts to explore the possibilities of running more and more electric vehicles. However, the state Transport department has already introduced electric buses in the city," said an official of the state Transport department. The state Transport department too, has already introduced 80 such buses which are plying on different routes throughout the city..