Pimpri-Chinchwad: The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is set to establish charging stations at 22 locations in Pimpri-Chinchwad city through a private agency to provide electric vehicle (EV) charging facilities to citizens, officials announced on Thursday. The tender was published four times over the last three years with changes to the terms and conditions.

Despite this, it failed to get a response. Now, after three years, the process of giving the work of setting up the stations to a private company is in the final stage. The stations will be set up on the basis of the 'Build and Operate' model.

According to Regional Transport Office (RTO) records, Pimpri-Chinchwad has over 2.3 million registered vehicles, which includes over 50,000 electric vehicles. For the increasing

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