Installation Of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2333 ANSWERED ON 07.08.2026 INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS

2333. SHRI SANT BALBIR SINGH:

Will the Minister of Heavy Industries be pleased to state:

(a) the number of electric vehicle charging stations installed in each State and Union Territory during the last five years;

(b) the details of these stations categorised into fast-charging and slow-charging;

(c) the agencies responsible for installing them (public sector, private sector or State implementing agencies); and

(d) the number of charging stations installed under FAME-I, FAME-II and any other Central Government schemes in Punjab? ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR HEAVY INDUSTRIES (SHRI BHUPATHIRAJU SRINIVASA VARMA)

(a): As per information received from BHEL, a total of 52,718 EV charging stations are installed on pan India basis as on 29.07.2026. Details of State /UT-wise EVCS installed are provided at Annexure.

(b): The information regarding bifurcation of EV charging stations into fast-charging and slow- charging categories is not maintained centrally.

(c): Setting up of a charging station is an unlicensed activity and private players can install EV charging stations as per Ministry of Power (MoP) Guidelines dated September 17, 2024.

Under FAME-II scheme, responsible agencies are three Oil Marketing Companies namely IOCL, BPCL, HPCL and 5 entities namely REIL, CESL, KSEB, SMC, POWERGRID.

Under the PM E-DRIVE scheme, Government of India ministries, Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs), States/Union Territories and PSUs under them are eligible to submit EV PCS proposals to MHI. GoI ministries and States / UTs may appoint nodal agency(ies) to aggregate the demand for EV PCS. These eligible entities may choose to set up, operate, and maintain EV PCS on their own, or engage Charge Point Operators (CPOs) for the same.

(d): FAME-I: Out of 479 chargers installed under the scheme, no chargers were installed in Punjab. However, 48 charging stations were installed in Chandigarh under the FAME-I scheme (PIB

19.07.2022).

FAME-II: As per inputs received from the three OMCs as on 01.07.2026, a total of 439 EV Public Charging Stations (EV PCS) have been installed in Punjab under the FAME-II scheme.

Further, 25 EV PCS have been installed in Chandigarh by other public sector entities.

PM E-DRIVE: Under the PM E-DRIVE scheme, no proposal from Punjab State is received as on 04.08.2026. *******Annexure State / UT wise installed EV charging stations (EVCS) as on 29.07.2026 S. No. Name of the State/ UT No. of installed EVCS 1 Andaman And Nicobar Islands 9 2 Andhra Pradesh 1,976 3 Arunachal Pradesh 80 4 Assam 630 5 Bihar 1,044 6 Chandigarh 76 7 Chhattisgarh 717 8 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 32 9 Delhi 2,370 10 Goa 314 11 Gujarat 2,789 12 Haryana 2,291 13 Himachal Pradesh 256 14 Jammu And Kashmir 295 15 Jharkhand 525 16 Karnataka 6,805 17 Kerala 3,399 18 Ladakh 25 19 Lakshadweep 1 20 Madhya Pradesh 1,959 21 Maharashtra 6,985 22 Manipur 72 23 Meghalaya 124 24 Mizoram 40 25 Nagaland 53 26 Odisha 1,055 27 Puducherry 77 28 Punjab 1,548 29 Rajasthan 2,827 30 Sikkim 22 31 Tamil Nadu 3,839 32 Telangana 3,739 33 Tripura 75 34 Uttar Pradesh 4,493 35 Uttarakhand 410 36 West Bengal 1,766 Grand Total 52,718

Source: BHEL