
umamaheswara Rao Mogali
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While private CPOs toil hard to provide reliable charging infrastructure for EVs, the responses from oil majors @HPCL and @BPCLimited for the charging infrastructure the government asked them to deploy are far from ideal. HPCL ⚡️HPCL says it has deployed 2801 fast chargers to date, and 1022 are available on CMS/app out of the same. This means 1779 chargers or ₹180 cr worth of infrastructure is lying defunct (assuming ₹10L price per charger). ⚡️For the 1022 chargers available on the app, HPCL cannot provide uptime or usage data and has asked us to visit the app for such information. Both responses have been appealed. BPCL ⚡️BPCL provided no information about charger deployment, uptime, and usage. It has been stated that all information is available on the app. This has also been appealed. 🙏Our humble request to @PetroleumMin, @HardeepSPuri, and his office is to appoint a team that conducts an audit, gets most of this charging infrastructure online, and ensures the public money deployed by the government to improve charging infrastructure is not wasted. c.c. - @PMOIndia @MHI_GoI Images of RTI response below.
























