India needs 100 pc indigenous EVs to become self-reliant: Gadkari
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- ✓Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said India needs 100 per cent indigenous electric vehicles to become self-reliant.
- ✓On Friday evening, he inaugurated six new manufacturing facilities of EKA Mobility in Pune.
- ✓"To become a self-reliant India, we need 100 per cent indigenous electric vehicles and this is our dream," Gadkari said.
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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has said India needs 100 per cent indigenous electric vehicles (EVs) to become self-reliant.
Terming the automobile industry as the backbone of Indian industry, he said the sector provides employment to 4.5 crore people.Gadkari further said the size of India's automobile industry had increased to Rs 22 lakh crore.
"To become a self-reliant India, we need 100 per cent indigenous electric vehicles and this is our dream," Gadkari said on Friday evening while inaugurating six new manufacturing facilities of electric mobility company EKA Mobility and its group companies, including Pinnacle Industries, in Pune.
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