Mains Marathon Daily Current Affairs Questions and Answer Writing – February 16, 2018

Answer 1) There is definitely need for shift to all electric fleet of vehicles as early as possible looking at the recent incidents of smog chock-age in Delhi and Chennai. But implementing this in such a big country like India and that too in a period of other 12-15 years is practically not possible looking at different aspects of technical issues and financial issues. To implement this entire fleet of petrol and diesel vehicles, it requires massive production of electric vehicles where it is not feasible with the existing infrastructure of the country. Looking at the financial aspects of the country, India is a country with a huge middle-class population. Asking them to scrap the present vehicles and forcing them to buy the new tech electric vehicles is highly unimaginable(even it leads to a revolution). Even from production side it is not feasible to produce these many cars to meet the day to day needs for the country. Government must be ready with the answer on how it deals with the scrapped cars and how it is willing to show the alternate employment to the petrol station and its employees. It should also make proper laws on how it is going to provide licenses for the new car manufacturing companies and how it is going to create new power charging station in lieu the present existing petrol bunks through out the country.