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What India had spent from its ₹10,900 crore electric mobility plan by March
India’s PM E-DRIVE statement shows most of the early spending in purchase incentives for two- and three-wheelers. The largest individual allocation was for buses, where the government had begun tendering before it recorded spending in the March snapshot.
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Outlay
Shared scale · 0 ₹ crore to 4,391 ₹ crore
Spent to 19 March 2026
Shared scale · 0 ₹ crore to 4,391 ₹ crore
Switch between the full outlay and spending through 19 March 2026 for the same components.
Two- and three-wheelers accounted for most of the early outlay used
By 19 March the ministry reported ₹2,017 crore of spending, about 18.5% of the ₹10,900 crore total outlay. Two-wheelers accounted for ₹1,259.91 crore and the L5 three-wheeler class for ₹730.65 crore. The two lines together represented almost 99% of expenditure at that snapshot. Source 1
Buses had the biggest allocation
The ₹4,391 crore bus budget was about 40% of the entire scheme. The March annex showed no expenditure booked against that line. The later parliamentary update records that the first tender, for 10,900 buses, closed in December 2025 and the second, for 2,900, in May 2026. Tendering and booked expenditure are separate milestones. Source 1 Source 2
Awards and concession agreements came after tendering
The August reply says that Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Surat had issued letters of award by 30 June. It identifies signed concession agreements for 915 buses in Hyderabad and 600 in Surat. Those counts describe agreements, before any subsequent delivery or operation reported in a different record. Source 2
Charging and testing are separate grants
The March annex assigns ₹2,000 crore to public charging and ₹780 crore to upgrades at testing agencies. Both were capital grant lines and showed zero recorded expenditure at that date. These categories fund different parts of the electric mobility system and can move at a different pace from demand incentives on vehicles. Source 1