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all trips in India are less than that not mentioned specifically”. Among the seminar, particularly, was superb.
of five kilometres. We can straight the many action areas to be worked You had the Secretary of MoRTH Y S
away move to electric vehicles”. upon, he mentioned improving air Malik himself giving the Chief Guest’s
He exhorted the audience to quality in India’s high pollution cities address and the Advisor to NITI Aayog,
think that given the increasing and bringing EV mobility to India as Anil Srivastava giving the Keynote
demand for electric vehicles, and the top two. Laying emphasis on address, What else do you want?
hence, their batteries, it is odd that Multiple Technology Approach, he That was a fantastic opening. The
there is no Indian company in the said, “We need to take lead in Electric industry got a very good idea about
manufacturing of these batteries! Vehicle Manufacturing, Battery how the government is thinking. The
“We figure somewhere in “rest Manufacturing, Creating Charging rest of the experts from the industry
of the world” in studies and are Points, EV Componentry and Unified gave their perspectives and we got to
Mobility Platform”. Srivastava said know and understand how they look
that we have about 2000 charging at the entire issue. I went around the
points and that is a big challenge stalls and I think this is one of the
as EVs gain momentum on Indian best collections of technology under
roads. one roof. I wish this will continue.
Yudhvir Singh Malik, in T Krishna Prasad, however, said It has got a great value because we
his address, shared an that EVs have challenges too. “The need to talk more and more about
interesting anecdote. only way forward is Public Transport. mobility, solutions for mobility, and
He said a Minister We cannot keep adding flyovers. I integrated & intelligent solutions for
once asked the noted am a great fan of Public Transport mobility. We need to talk a lot more
industrialist Ratan Tata, but are we integrating the buses, about safety and security, because we
“Why do our buses not trains, metros seamlessly?” He said are losing 1,50,000 human lives and
three per cent GDP. Only when such
the aggregators played a major
have the quality of buses role in making travel convenient for exhibitions take place at such a grand
like the West? And why the passengers, and “if they give scale do we discuss serious things. The
have you not improved convenience, then we must look at kind of technology displayed here is
your buses?” Tata replied ways to promote them”. Praising the very, very useful and I hope various
in a nonchalant manner, shows he said, “Personally I am very governmental agencies and the
“Because nobody pushed happy that I came here today. I had an industry will adopt these technologies
us to do that till now”. opportunity of meeting the captains to make our human lives more safe
of the industry and learnt the way when we are on the move, and our
they think. The opening session, of travel more comfortable”.

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