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e-tolling New app to locate parking space
infrastructure for NHs n order to solve the parking worries, and heavy motor vehicles. Of late, 24

ith the aim to transform the Brihanmumbai Municipal bus depots and 37 bus terminals are
conventional toll collection ICorporation has come up with being used to park buses.
Winto electronic toll collection ‘MCGM 24x7’ app. The app will help The app has a Smart Parking icon
from December 1, the National find a public parking lot (PPL) anywhere on the homepage which can enable
Highways Authority of India has been in the city. motorists with all information regarding
successful in enabling almost 75% The app is a joint initiative of the BMC parking lots- addresses, parking timings,
of national highways with e-tolling and the Mumbai Parking Authority. Till types of vehicles allowed and whether it
infrastructure. now, there are 26 PPLs in the city with a is a paid space or free. The app also has
The move will make travel through capacity for more than 20,000 vehicles, the BMC’s parking circular with penalty
toll plazas seamless and remove including two, three and four-wheelers details.
congestion. In the case of national
highways functioning on build-operate-
transfer model, the concessionaires
have been asked to make infrastructure
available for electronic tolling.

Govt approves 5,595 e-buses

he Central Government has cleared mobility. Among the major cities, Delhi,
the way for 5,595 electric buses for Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and
Tinter- and intra-city transportation Ahmedabad got the highest number of
in 64 cities. The move is expected to give buses at 300 each.
a boost to the government’s initiative on Invitations for Expressions of Interest
giving a thrust to last-mile connectivity have been called from smart cities,
and continued pressing for electric
state/UT capitals and cities from
special-category states for submission
of proposal for deployment of e-buses
on operational cost basis. According to
the EoI, buses which satisfy the required
localisation level and technical eligibility
notified under FAME II will be eligible for
funding under the scheme.
These buses will run about four billion
kilometres during their contract period
and are expected to save cumulatively
about 1.2 billion liters of fuel over the
contract period, which will result into
avoidance of 2.6 million tonnes of CO
2
emission.

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