‘Go Electric Campaign’

Current Context: The ‘Go Electric Campaign’ was launched by Union Minister of Road, Transport, and Highways Nitin Gadkari.

• The campaign is launched to promote awareness and importance of EV charging infrastructure and e-mobility as well as electric cooking in India.
• The campaigns aim to take India’s one step forward to a cleaner and greener future by adopting EV Charging Infrastructure, e-mobility and electric cooking method.
• The campaign will promote environmental-friendly, cost-effective, and indigenous electric products.
• The ‘Go Electric Campaign’ will also result in an increase in the production of Electric Vehicle.
• The campaign will be implemented by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). The BEE will provide technical support to the state-designated agencies to promote the campaign in every state.
• The campaign will also observe a discussion on ‘Scaling up e-mobility infrastructure in India and the role of different stakeholders in e-mobility’.
• During the launching event of the campaign, the ‘Go Electric’ Logo was also unveiled. The ‘Go Electric’ Logo depicts the evolution of the e-mobility ecosystem.

Question: 

Q.1 Who among the following launched the ‘Go Electric Campaign’?
a. PM Narendra Modi
b. Piyush Goyal
c. Nitin Gadkari
d. Ravi Shankar Prasad