The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, today launched a retrofit electric bus which has been converted from a diesel bus to a battery-operated electric bus. As an initiative of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, to provide clean, pollution-free transport for Members of Parliament the PM briefly visited the bus, and handed over the key of the bus to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Sumitra Mahajan.
Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said that the environment had been a topic of discussion for long, but in recent times, the impact of damage to the environment is being felt by the common man.
