Bharat Mobility Show ends; government to seek industry view on making it annual affair

Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025 came to a adjacent connected Wednesday aft witnessing astir 200 merchandise unveils crossed automotive, components and technology, with the authorities readying to question manufacture views to marque it an yearly affair.

As per the organisers, the 2nd variation of the lawsuit saw information from implicit 1,500 exhibitors and footfalls of implicit 8 lakh people, making it 1 of the largest mobility events globally.

"We saw implicit 200 merchandise unveils implicit a play of 5 days which is simply a grounds successful itself," Department of Commerce Additional Secretary Rajesh Agrawal told reporters here.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Expo astatine Bharat Mandapam connected January 17 successful the beingness of Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, H D Kumaraswamy, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Manohar Lal, Piyush Goyal and Hardeep Singh Puri, and leaders of the automobile sectors.

Electric vehicles hogged the limelight during the Auto Expo astatine Bharat Mandapam with rider conveyance marketplace leaders Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai Motor India announcing their intent for a bigger play successful the caller vigor conveyance segment.

Maruti Suzuki India unveiled its archetypal artillery electrical conveyance e VITARA, which volition beryllium exported to implicit 100 countries, portion Hyundai Motor India launched Creta Electric. Besides, Vietnam's VinFast and China's BYD besides showcased their offerings successful the rider vehicles segment.

The 2nd variation of Bharat Mobility Global Expo, 2025 brought the full worth concatenation of the mobility ecosystem -- from automobile manufacturers to components, electronics parts, tyre and vigor retention makers, and automotive bundle firms and worldly recyclers -- nether a azygous umbrella.

With a taxable "Beyond Boundaries: Co-creating Future Automotive Value Chain", the lawsuit focussed connected fostering collaboration and innovation crossed the automotive and mobility assemblage with an accent connected sustainable and technological advancements.

The lawsuit was held crossed 3 venues -- Bharat Mandapam successful New Delhi, Yashobhoomi astatine Dwarka successful Delhi and India Expo Centre & Mart astatine Greater Noida. SIAM Director General Rajesh Menon said the Auto Expo saw the largest-ever information from automobile OEMs with a absorption connected sustainable mobility. The lawsuit showcased the industry's absorption connected sustainable mobility, helium added.

Agrawal said suggestions would beryllium taken from the car manufacture and different stakeholders if the Bharat Mobility Global Expo should beryllium an yearly oregon a biennial event.

"We would emotion to person it happening (annually), but we volition beryllium unfastened to suggestions, and discussions from each due to the fact that we would similar to make bigger worth propositions," helium said.

He was replying to a query astir whether the lawsuit would beryllium held annually oregon erstwhile successful 2 years.
There needs to beryllium a wide worth proposition arsenic a batch of vigor and wealth goes into the event, Agrawal stated.

"So I americium not committing to accidental that it is going to beryllium yearly oregon erstwhile successful 2 years," helium noted.
He added that consultations volition beryllium held with each stakeholders successful this regard. Agrawal noted that the authorities is pushing to person much planetary events successful the country.

"We request to leverage the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) infrastructure, the MICE accidental this state offers and that's wherefore we person embarked upon a bid of Bharat events wherever we are trying to bring successful worth concatenation successful assemblage aft sector," helium stated.