With Over Ten Lakh Electric Vehicles On Road And 1,700 Public Charging Stations Operational, India s EV Transition Continues
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Grand Challenge: Rs 5,500 Crore Tender Floated To Procure 5,580 Electric Buses; Vehicles Will Be Deployed In Big Cities
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Oppn cries foul on hasty civic proposal; drivers fear losing jobs.
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) seems to have forgotten its financial crunch, which it otherwise always cries over, and has hastily proposed renting 38 electric cars at Rs 23.28 crore for a period of eight years in the recent civic standing committee meeting. The opposition has cried foul, also since the quotation is higher by Rs 8 crore amongst other reasons, and the consideration of the proposal has been postponed by two weeks. PMC defended its move by claiming this will help fight pollution in the city.
Congress corporator Aba Bagul questioned the timing of the proposal. “The PMC has sufficient cars for use with many claiming allowance for self-owned cars. Also, the PMC is already struggling to pay the salaries of its employees, but still wants to indulge in unnecessary expenditure like this.”
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NEW DELHI: The government has told the parliamentary standing committee on information technology that it has the cutting edge technology, standard operating procedures and processes to tackle any cyber-attack that may come India’s way.
Appearing before the Shashi Tharoor-led House panel on Tuesday, IT secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney told the committee that India has robust cyber security mechanisms in place and that it is well prepared to counter and quell any attacks.
In response to questions about the Mumbai outage, which Massachusetts-based cybersecurity firm Recorded Future had in February attributed to the infiltration of Chinese state-backed hackers in at least 10 electricity assets owned by NTPC and POSCO, Sawhney is learnt to have acknowledged “a problem”, but did not divulge details referring to them as “classified information”. Sources TOI spoke to also said the official told the panel that the government had identified and neutralised th