ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said has said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was working over a plan to convert public transport into electric vehicles in metropolitan cities of Pakistan.
Addressing a ceremony today, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said the government decided to install EV charging stations on motorways across the country.
The minister was speaking at the ceremony to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Science and Technology with a British company, EGV Limited, to build electric buses in the country.
He said that EGV was Europe’s largest bus manufacturing company and they will be assembling electric buses in Pakistan.
The minister said, “This is the second agreement the government has signed with a foreign company for the manufacturing of electric buses”.
In the first phase, buses will run in these three cities of the country, Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad, he added.
Besides, 40 percent of all public transport buses will be shifted to electric vehicles within the next ten years Fawad said.
Criticizing the former provincial government of Punjab over Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) project, Chaudhry said the PML-N government had spent Rs 60 billion on the Orange Line project and the present government has to give an annual subsidy of Rs12 billion for the project.
In the next two to three years, the entire motorway network will shift to electric vehicle charging, said the Federal Minister for Science.
“Nawaz Sharif is getting full coverage at Indian media. India has done investment over Nawaz Sharif,” he said. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was welcomed in Raiwind when he was slaughtering Kashmiris, he added.
Pakistani people and armed forces valiantly combated the war against terrorism and registered remarkable success against the tide of terrorism, he concluded.
