India has launched the advisory document titled Bharat Zero Emission Trucking (ZET) Policy Advisory.

The document outlines a comprehensive set of 30 policy interventions to accelerate ZET adoption in India.

These interventions are categorized into five key areas: incentives, regulations, infrastructure, business and financing, and stakeholder-centric initiatives.

Each policy intervention identifies a nodal agency responsible for implementation, a list of key stakeholders, its impact on the sector, and the methodology of policy formulation.

These recommendations will be further refined through extensive stakeholder consultations, including detailed cost-benefit and impact analyses by the concerned ministries, departments, and institutions, according to a press release.

In his opening address, Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India, emphasized the importance of ZET for decarbonization and energy security.

He said, “The induction and wider adoption of ZETs require technical expertise and systematic policy interventions to create an enabling techno-socio-economic ecosystem in India.”

Hanif Qureshi, Additional Secretary (Auto), Ministry of Heavy Industries and Sudhendu Sinha, Adviser (Infrastructure Connectivity & E-Mobility), NITI Aayog, highlighted the need for the electrification of trucks. They talked about ways to completely switch to ZETs and achieve 100% ZET sales penetration by 2050 to meet India’s challenging Net Zero 2070 target.