Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure And Fame Scheme In Maharashtra

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1528 ANSWERED ON 31.07.2026 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE AND FAME SCHEME IN MAHARASHTRA

1528. SHRI MILIND MURLI DEORA:

Will the Minister of Heavy Industries be pleased to state:

(a) the district-wise, city-wise and year-wise details, from 2019–20 to 2023–24, of public Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations sanctioned, installed and operational in Maharashtra under FAME India Scheme Phases I and II;

(b) the year-wise Central funds sanctioned, released and utilised for EV charging infrastructure in the State;

(c) the number of electric buses sanctioned and delivered under FAME Phase II to MSRTC, PMPML, BEST and other agencies in Maharashtra;

(d) whether any FAME-funded charging stations are non-functional, sub-standard or noncompliant with interoperability norms, if so, the details thereof; and

(e) the measures ensuring equitable deployment across Tier-II and Tier-III cities? ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR HEAVY INDUSTRIES (SHRI BHUPATHIRAJU SRINIVASA VARMA)

(a) & (b): Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI), under the FAME India Scheme Phase-II, sanctioned financial support of ₹873.50 crore to three Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), namely BPCL, IOCL and HPCL, for setting up of public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

(EVPCS) on a pan-India basis including Maharashtra. Under the Scheme, no State-wise, district-wise or city-wise allocation or sanction of EV charging stations was made.

Table 1 : Status of EVPCS Installed and Operational under FAME-II Scheme as on

01.07.2026 in Maharashtra State Installed EVPCS Operational/ Energized EVPCS Maharashtra 775 710 As per inputs received from 3 OMCs, the details of EVPCS installed and operational by 3 OMCs, in Maharashtra under the FAME-II Scheme are provided at Annexure.

Further, FAME-I scheme was implemented from April 2015 to March 2019. As per information appearing in PIB dated 26.07.2022 it is seen that 17 EVCS were operational on Mumbai-Pune Expressway under FAME-I scheme.-2-

(c): Under FAME India Phase-II, 830 electric buses were sanctioned for deployment in Maharashtra. All the 830 electric buses had been delivered to the concerned State Transport Undertaking (STUs). STU wise details are as under :

Table 2 : No. of e-buses Sanctioned and delivered in Maharashtra under FAME-II Scheme Sr. No. of e-Buses Sanctioned and Name of STU No. delivered in Maharashtra Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport 1 340

(BEST) Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd 2 150

(PMPML) Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation 3 150

(MSRTC) 4 Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport (NMMT) 150 5 Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) 40 Total 830

(d) Under the FAME-II Scheme out of total 8,932, EV Chargers sanctioned to 3 OMCs to be setup on pan India basis, 8,189 are functional /energised. Further, none of the EVPCS sanctioned under the FAME-II are sub-standard or noncompliant with interoperability norms.

(e): Deployment of EV Charging Stations, under the FAME-II Scheme, was implemented on a pan India basis including Tier-II and Tier-III cities. ******Annexure Details of District wise EVPCS installed and operational in Maharashtra as on 01.07.2026 is as under:

S. No. District Name No. of EVPCS Installed Operational/Energized 1 Ahmednagar (Ahilyanagar) 30 30 2 Akola 15 13 3 Amravati 12 9 4 Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhaji 42 37 Nagar) 5 Beed 16 16 6 Bhandara 12 12 7 Buldhana 20 17 8 Chandrapur 11 10 9 Dhule 23 22 10 Gadchiroli 5 5 11 Gondia 11 9 12 Hingoli 7 6 13 Jalgaon 31 28 14 Jalna 10 9 15 Kolhapur 35 35 16 Latur 10 10 17 Mumbai City 6 6 18 Mumbai Suburban 13 8 19 Nagpur 35 34 20 Nanded 14 14 21 Nandurbar 12 12 22 Nashik 82 70 23 Osmanabad (Dharashiv) 11 11 24 Palghar 25 20 25 Parbhani 6 6 26 Pune 84 82 27 Raigad 25 19 28 Ratnagiri 12 12 29 Sangli 19 16 30 Satara 35 34 31 Sindhudurg 7 7 32 Solapur 19 19 33 Thane 32 27 34 Wardha 23 22 35 Washim 2 2 36 Yavatmal 23 21 Total = 775 710

Source: IOCL, BPCL and HPCL