In an ambitious announcement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that India has decided to become self-reliant in the energy sector in the next 25 years. The Prime Minister was addressing a program in Gandhinagar.
Suzuki Motor Corporation organized an event to commemorate 40 years at Mahatma Mandir Convention Center. During the program, Modi The relations between India and Japan were also appreciated. The Prime Minister also remembered the late former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe while speaking on India-Japan friendship.
The Prime Minister said that from the Gujarat-Maharashtra Bullet Train to the Rudraksh Kendra in Varanasi and many more such development projects are examples of Indo-Japan friendship. Modi said the late Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, worked to bring the two countries closer and the current PM (Fumio) Kishida is working towards it.
“India Wants To Be” self-reliant (self-reliant) in the energy sector in the ‘nectar period’ of the next 25 years,” PM Modi said, adding that transport is an important thing to achieve this.
Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of Maruti Suzuki Vehicle Manufacturing Facility for Haryana and Suzuki EV Battery Plant for Hansalpur in Gujarat.
Modi said that electric two wheelers and four wheelers do not make any noise and are silent. “The silence of electric vehicles is bringing about a new silent revolution in the country,” he said.
At the event, PM Modi said that India has announced at COP-26 (Climate Summit) that it will get 50 per cent of its installed power capacity from non-fossil sources by 2030.
PM Modi said, “We are working fast on both supply and demand of the EV ecosystem. From tax exemptions to easy credit facilities, we are working to drive the demand for EVs.”
He said that from automobile to biofuel sector, more than 125 Japanese companies are working in Gujarat.
He said, “Electric vehicles are bringing a silent revolution in India. Today, India considers the addition of EVs as a necessary step, not just vehicles.”
Suzuki Motor Gujarat Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Facility will be set up at Hansalpur, Gujarat with an investment of approx. Rs 7,300 crore for making advanced chemistry cell batteries for electric vehicles.
The vehicle manufacturing facility at Kharkhoda, Haryana will have a capacity to manufacture one million passenger vehicles per year, making it one of the largest single site passenger vehicle manufacturing facilities in the world. The first phase of the project will be set up with an investment of over Rs. 11,000 crore, the statement said.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel was also present on the occasion.
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