Manipur CM Holds Meeting with Private E-Vehicle Manufacturers

The meeting was held to put the state on the E-vehicle manufacturing map.

The Chief Minister wrote in his Twitter, "Held a meeting with some private E-vehicle manufacturers & discussed the feasibility of manufacturing E-vehicles in Manipur. Given the strategic geographic advantage for easy import & export, investors have started showing their interest for big-ticket investments in Manipur".

Earlier, the chief minister distributed e-autos and e-rickshaws to 65 beneficiaries including nine women at Kangla, Imphal.

The initiative is an undertaking by the Directorate of Environment and Climate Change under Manipur State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC), Government of Manipur to promote e- mobility, to address the existing as well as future challenges of climate change, and to reduce the associated risks and vulnerabilities.

According to CMO Manipur these e-Autos and e-Rickshaws which was distributed among 65 beneficiaries under the UNDP-GEF project on "Market Transformation and Removal of Barriers for Effective Implementation of the State-level Climate Change Action Plan, Manipur."

During the event, the chief minister stressed the need to replace all the diesel autos operating in the State with e-autos by providing grants and loans from the Government so that air and noise pollution levels could be mitigated at a certain level.

The beneficiaries also received an amount of Rs 1.40 lakh each as a grant by the Government for the purchase of the e-auto/rickshaw, with some loan benefit also provided by Manipur State Co-operative Bank.