{"id":206238,"date":"2022-09-16T20:10:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=206238"},"modified":"2022-09-16T20:10:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:40:40","slug":"climate-action-that-runs-on-cooperative-federalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-action-that-runs-on-cooperative-federalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate action that runs on cooperative federalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cClimate action that runs on cooperative federalism \u201d<\/strong>\u00a0published in\u00a0The Hindu<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a016th<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

News: <\/strong>India has decided to<\/strong> buy 5,450 buses with an ambitious target to have 50,000 e-buses on the country\u2019s roads by 2030. It shows India\u2019s efforts towards climate goals.<\/p>\n

Rapid electrification is a key pillar of India\u2019s public transportation. This pillar has a potential to reduce India\u2019s pollution and it\u2019s import bill.<\/p>\n

What is the current situation of state buses and the problems associated with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are currently around 1,40,000 registered public buses on India\u2019s roads.<\/p>\n

Around 40,000 of these buses are at the end of their lifespan and their operation must be immediately stopped.<\/p>\n

Most of the buses are owned by State transport undertakings and all these are in poor financial condition.<\/p>\n

These buses run in losses due to the subsidised fares. State Transport undertakings pay high prices when they buy the buses in the market.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, there are limitations to nation-wide laws on the issue of state governments control on transport, urban governance and pollution control.<\/p>\n

However, cooperative federalism can play an important role in tackling these issues.<\/p>\n

How cooperative federalism has helped in the decision to buy buses?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Grand Challenge 1<\/strong> is a great example of cooperative federalism. Under Grand Challenge 1, a unified tender for 5,450 buses (across five major Indian cities \u2014 Kolkata, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Surat) was issued.<\/p>\n

This is for the 1st<\/sup> time that a unified tender to address the challenging issue of climate change, has been issued.<\/p>\n

Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL), a nodal agency of the Union government in collaboration with State-led demand and customisation acted as the programme manager in this effort of centralised procurement.<\/p>\n

This coordination among central and state governments led to the finding of the low price required to operate the buses.<\/p>\n

For example, <\/strong>on a cost-per-kilometre basis, the prices discovered were 40% lower than diesel and 34% less than CNG (without factoring in the subsidy through FAME-II).<\/p>\n

What is FAME<\/strong><\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What led to the success of this unified tender?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

This change in unified tender was enabled by three key factors a) collaboration, b) pace, and c) transparency.<\/p>\n

First,<\/strong> the tender was a fully consultative process. The different contributions by participants helped in influencing the design of future tenders also.<\/p>\n

Second<\/strong>, there was a sense of climate urgency that shaped this collaboration.<\/p>\n

Third,<\/strong> transparency was the strongest aspect of this tender. There was clarity about the intention to build trust and build a publicly available process that invited bids from automakers and operators.<\/p>\n

Therefore, excessive centralization can have limitations and contradict the federal principles enshrined in the Constitution.<\/p>\n

How decentralization decision can help in improving the climate conditions?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Indian states and districts vary vastly in their vulnerability to climate impacts.<\/p>\n

Decentralized decision-making and locally-led adaptation will help reduce possible damage to lives and livelihoods.<\/p>\n

Urban local bodies and gram panchayats can be the heart of climate action and they can be consulted in the decision making process.<\/p>\n

However, centralised procurement and programme management can deliver huge transformations in certain areas. Because, states lack size and financial power for electrification of mass mobility.<\/p>\n

Although a good start has been made still much work remains to be done to enable the electrification of mass mobility in India.<\/p>\n

What can be the further course of action?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The country\u2019s shift to clean public transportation will require a range of efforts.<\/p>\n

First,<\/strong> it will require increasing the manufacturing capacity of domestic battery production, building out charging infrastructure among others.<\/p>\n

Second,<\/strong> effort on cooperative federalism can play an important role to fulfil the ambitious targets for green and inclusive economic development in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cClimate action that runs on cooperative federalism \u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0on\u00a016th September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 News: India has decided to buy 5,450 buses with an ambitious target to have 50,000 e-buses on the country\u2019s roads by 2030. It shows India\u2019s efforts towards climate goals. Rapid electrification is a… Continue reading Climate action that runs on cooperative federalism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-206238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}