{"id":45356,"date":"2024-08-18T11:19:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T06:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=45356"},"modified":"2024-08-18T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T06:19:44","slug":"cm-maryam-nawaz-set-to-expand-e-bike-quota-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/automobile\/cm-maryam-nawaz-set-to-expand-e-bike-quota-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Maryam Nawaz set to expand E-bike quota for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cm-punjab-maryam-approves-laptop-scheme-students-scholarship-programme\/\">Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz<\/a> has announced a boost in the quota for e-bikes in response to high student demand, aiming to enhance student mobility.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a broader initiative to offer affordable transportation options, the program has seen substantial interest. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/automobile\/chinese-automaker-launches-worlds-fastest-charging-ev-details-inside\/\">Provincial Transport Minister Bilal Akbar Khan<\/a> shared that e-bikes are available to students through easy installment plans, ensuring broad accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 190,000 students have registered for the first phase, which includes 20,000 bikes, 1,000 of which are electric.<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s success is highlighted by an additional 50,000 applications from students seeking e-bikes.<\/p>\n<p>In response, CM Nawaz has directed an expedited distribution process, with daily progress reports required from relevant departments.<\/p>\n<p>Marriyum Aurangzeb noted that 10,000 of the applications are from female students. Despite the higher cost of e-bikes, the Punjab government will cover the extra expenses to make them more affordable for students, according to the transport minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has announced a boost in the quota for e-bikes in response to high student demand, aiming to enhance student mobility. As part of a broader initiative to offer affordable transportation options, the program has seen substantial interest. Provincial Transport Minister Bilal Akbar Khan shared that e-bikes are available to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14342],"tags":[12936,20542],"class_list":["post-45356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","tag-cm-maryam-nawaz","tag-transport-minister-bilal-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45356","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45357,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45356\/revisions\/45357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}