{"id":34850,"date":"2024-04-30T20:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=34850"},"modified":"2024-05-08T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:59:15","slug":"punjab-govt-cancels-e-bike-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-govt-cancels-e-bike-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Govt cancels e-bike scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Eco-friendly transportation in Punjab faced a setback as the provincial government canceled its project to distribute interest-free electric bikes, it emerged on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the details, the Punjab government canceled eco-friendly transportation due to some hurdles. Now, the government has decided to provide fuel-powered motorbikes instead of electric bikes at easy installments.<\/p>\n<p>However, some reports suggest that the government is still considering the e-bike option and it has not been abundant yet.<\/p>\n<p>As per sources, the electric bike proposal was canceled due to some concerns over bike features, citing concerns over battery theft and the low mileage of bikes.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister of Punjab Maryam Nawaz chaired a meeting in connection with electric bikes, where she acknowledged electric bikes as environmentally friendly but deemed them unfeasible due to prevailing circumstances.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-announces-e-bikes-scheme-for-teachers-complete-details-here\/\">Punjab announces e-bikes scheme for teachers, complete details here<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The move has sparked disappointment among environmental enthusiasts and students who had hoped for a transition towards eco-friendly transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Eco-friendly transportation in Punjab faced a setback as the provincial government canceled its project to distribute interest-free electric bikes, it emerged on Tuesday. According to the details, the Punjab government canceled eco-friendly transportation due to some hurdles. Now, the government has decided to provide fuel-powered motorbikes instead of electric bikes at easy installments. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[467,205,13603],"class_list":["post-34850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-punjab-government","tag-maryam-nawaz","tag-punjab-e-bike-scheme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}