Union minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said, the govt. to come out with the new policy for the promotion of e-vehicles or electric vehicles in this fiscal year.

Mr. Goyal on his visit to  Vienna and London with a business delegation said that "We will see a very robust policy (for the promotion of electric vehicles) in this fiscal," 

"Niti Aayog has drawn up certain ideas but the project is being looked after by the Ministry of Heavy Industries. I am sure that will have all discussions and come up with a robust policy because we want to encourage domestic manufacturing of electric vehicles," Goyal added.

"We have made a policy decision within the three ministries that all the ministerial vehicles and the vehicles used by our PSUs in and around Delhi will be replaced by the electric vehicles," he said.

He also said, "Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) or some other company will be shortlisted to become an aggregator of these vehicles"

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