Former CEO of NITI Aayog Amitabh Kant said a big thing on boom of EV sector in the country

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Delhi: On Asking about boom in Indian EV Sector Former NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant says, "EV sector is doing well. There are a number of young Indian companies, a number of startups which have come up. They've all done well, but we need to ensure that we do battery manufacturing in India for which the PLI scheme was announced. There's a production linked incentive scheme for automobiles and for that to manufacturing. And, I think, we should, keep pushing for that. We should become the EV capital of India. The world is going to move towards that area. That would require us to become a lot of we are going to move from 200 parts to 20 parts.”  #amitabhkant #nitiaayog #formerceo #amitabhkantinterview #evsector

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00:00Well, EV sector is doing well. There are a number of young Indian companies, a number

00:04of start-ups which have come up. They have all done well. But we need to ensure that

00:11we do battery manufacturing in India for which the PLI scheme was announced. There is a production

00:16linked incentive scheme for both automobiles and for battery manufacturing. And I think

00:23we should keep pushing for that. We should become the EV capital of India. The world

00:30is going to move towards that area. That would require us to become a manufacturer. We are

00:35going to move from 200 parts to 20 parts. We should become a manufacturer. We should

00:39also do battery manufacturing.

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