SMC signs MoU for e-mobility

Surat: A memorandum of understanding was signed on Wednesday between Surat Municipal Corporation , Union heavy industries ministry and Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Internationale zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to promote sustainable e-mobility under Indo-German tech cooperation.
Surat has been selected as a partner city under the Indo-German Technical Cooperation Project on scaling up a robust and eco-friendly e-transportation transformation in India, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the project is to be implemented with the support of Union MHI and GIZ.
Ernst Doering, cluster head and project director (Urban) of GIZ and Shalini Agarwal, SMC municipal commissioner signed the MOU. “Broad objectives are adoption of electric mobility through capacity building and training, plan transformation for electrification, creation of business models in electric mobility, knowledge sharing, benefits in the field of solar power,” SMC said in a statement.
“Diamond City is among the three cities selected by MHI for the project of which we are the first to sign the MOU. Lucknow and Chandigarh are the other two cities,” an SMC officer said.