Delhi CM Atishi connected Thursday announced that the Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy has been extended till March 2025 and the subsidies for e-vehicles bought aft January 1, 2024, volition beryllium transferred straight to the buyers’ accounts.
Addressing a property conference, Atishi said, “When different parties failed to instrumentality the argumentation successful their states, they sent Arvind Kejriwal to jailhouse and halted the argumentation successful Delhi. Due to this conspiracy, EV buyers did not person subsidies, and roadworthy taxation exemptions were not granted.”
The argumentation — 1 of the AAP government’s flagship schemes — was launched successful August 2020 to curb vehicular contamination and summation EVs nationally to 25 per cent by 2024. The argumentation expired aft 3 years successful August 2023, pursuing which the authorities extended the argumentation for six months till December 2023. It was expected to get different hold for six months successful January until EV argumentation 2.0 was to beryllium finalised.
Officials said that the pending subsidies volition beryllium cleared and those who purchased e-vehicles from January 1 to till now, volition besides person roadworthy taxation exemptions.