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Interview:
‘Our automobile sector is

doing good work’

In the last few decades
we haven’t handled the
situation very well. It is just
that in the last eight to ten
years that we have been
imbibing technology. So
how easily or seamlessly
will this feasibility happen?
It won’t be correct to say
that nothing has moved in the
country. The Indian automobile
sector has made tremendous
progress. We are contributing
a lot to the national GDP – a
large chunk of the components
and even the original cars are
being exported from India.
Yes, there is a scope to do
Anil Srivastava, Adviser (Infrastructure better. We could have done
better and I am sure that we
Connectivity), NITI Aayog says that that the will be doing much better
with policy formulations and
future is of Electric Mobility and it is time we pro-active approach of the
frame the right policies for it government. I am sure that the
shift from internal combustion
You have been talking seriously says and the projections are there engine to the Electric Mobility
about Electric Vehicles (EVs) and that by 2030 or 2040, more than 50 -- the electric vehicles -- will be
India moving towards EVs in the percent vehicle production would smoother. And, it will be more
next ten years. Can you tell us be that of Electric Vehicles, India in the interest of the growth
of the automobile sector, the
what ground is being laid for it? will have EVs too. Now the question smart cities and smart mobility.
Electric Mobility is bound to is: How do we handle this kind of This is the way in which the
happen. It’s not that we have to a situation -- this massive disruption citizens of India would like
really put in the efforts, because that is going to take place? We to move.
everybody is pointing at the way must have policies which take care So, we have done well in
Electric Mobility will be growing of this disruption. And the way we terms of the automobile sector
in the world and India is not an handle it in the name of the country and it is for us to take the
insulated country. We are part of the and in the name of the economy will decision to do much better. It’s
global economy. So when everybody pave the way for the transition. not the question of only the

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