{"id":4377,"date":"2023-01-03T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T04:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:30:35","slug":"what-is-fame-india-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-fame-india-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"What is FAME India scheme?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About FAME India Phase II:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Full name of scheme:<\/strong> Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India Phase II (FAME India Phase II).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implementing agency:<\/strong> Department of Heavy Industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> Promotion of Electric and hybrid vehicle in the country by offering upfront Incentive on purchase of Electric vehicles and by establishing charging Infrastructure for electric vehicles.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Salient features of the scheme:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The scheme with total outlay of Rs 10,000 Crores over the period of three years (2019-20 to 2021-22) will be implemented with effect from 1st April 2019.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This scheme is the expanded version of the present scheme titled &#8216;FAME India1 which was launched on 1st April 2015, with total outlay of Rs. 895 crores.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Target is to support 10 Lakhs e-2Wheeler, 5 Lakhs e-3Wheelers, 55000 4Wheelers and 7000 Buses.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Under the scheme of FAME-II, the demand incentive for e-2W has been increased to Rs. 15,000\/KWh from Rs. 10,000\/KWh with an increase in cap from 20% to almost 40% of the cost of the vehicle to increase the adoption of e-2W.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The phase II of FAME-India Scheme has been extended for a period of two years after 31st March 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits:<\/strong> The scheme will help in addressing the issue of environmental pollution and fuel security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0What are the major pollutants of the vehicle engine?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Pollutants produced by vehicle exhausts include carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, particles, volatile organic compounds and sulfur dioxide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1888061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>50 Electric Buses launched in Delhi with support under FAME India Phase II scheme of the Ministry of Heavy Industries.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAME India scheme aims to promote electric and hybrid vehicle by offering upfront Incentive on purchase of EVs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}