Purchase of Electric Vehicles ( Motor Cycles - Rickshaws -
Cars - Buses etc ) by ( mostly ) Public Transport Authorities, will cost Rs
10,000 CRORE , by way of subsidy , under FAME II
That is tax-payer money ( yours and mine )
But, what is supposed to be an initiative to :
# Boost faster adoption of Electric Vehicles
# Cut down on vehicular emission to improve air quality ,
- seems headed to become a BIG SCAM
This is something which may be " unintended consequence
" of a well-meaning scheme but , Can BJP government afford to be "
accused " of " Complicity " , with general elections merely days
ahead ?
I hope , Shri Arun Jaitleyji , finds time to issue
instructions to limit the damage !
E- Bus : without ETA [ Expected Time of Arrival ]
?
Here
is why :
Extract
:
The automobile manufacturer has been pulled up by the
government for failing to honour the deadline regarding the timely deliveries
of the vehicles along with a warning that it could be proscribed from getting future contracts under FAME
II if the dispatches are not expedited.
Tata Motors in March 2018, had won a contract for supplying 40 electric buses each to the
cities of Guwahati, Kolkata, Jaipur, Jammu & Kashmir, and Lucknow, the
deadline of which according to the report has been missed
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MY TAKE
If
the supplier could not deliver even 40 buses after ONE YEAR , what can we expect the “ Shape
of Things to Come “ under FAME
II , which calls for delivery of 7,090
e-buses in next 3 years ie : some 2300
per year ?
Is
FAME
II headed for an “ Unmitigated Disaster “ ?
Some
50 years back , on the northern border of Canada, USA government installed a
series of Radar installations , to give it an early warning of a few minutes ,
for arriving Russian missiles
It
was popularly known as DEW
( Distant Early Warning ] system
.
Forewarned
is forearmed !
I urge the Central Government to IMMEDIATELY install the following DEW
system for all E – Bus purchase – even if that means cancelling the existing orders –
and retendering
Central
Government to release a STANDARD
AGREEMENT for all public authorities for
purchase of E – Buses , to become eligible
to get subsidy under FAME
II
That
agreement must include following clauses :
[
A ]
Lease
There will be no “ outright purchase “ . All tenders will be only for “ Wet Leasing “ of buses
Wet leasing tariff shall only be on “ Per Km “
basis and never on “ Per Day –Week –Month “ basis
( This will put the ball in the court of the bus supplier to ensure that the
buses are in working conditions , all
the time. Supplier will ensure plenty of spare parts / availability of drivers
/ network of Charging Stations )
[
B ]
Risk Purchase
If
delivery is delayed by 30 days beyond committed delivery date , buyer will have
recourse to wet lease
buses from any source – the cost of which, the original supplier will have to
bear
[
C ]
Liquidated Damages
For each day of delay beyond the committed delivery date , supplier will be
liable to compensate the buyer
an amount equal to the “ average daily operating cost of an alternate diesel
bus x number of e – buses on
order
“
[
D ]
Bonus cum Penalty
Early delivery :
For each week of early delivery , supplier will be paid 1 % additional “ Per Km
“ tariff for the
first year of running ( Km ) of the number of buses delivered earlier ( than
stipulated date )
That means , should supplier deliver 5 buses , 4 weeks earlier , then supplier
will be entitled to get paid as
follows :
“ AT / km ( Agreed tariff ) + 4 % AT = BT / km ( Bonus tariff )
Bonus Amount = BT x No of buses delivered early ( ie 5 ) x Guaranteed Km
/ year ( may be 30,000 Km at
150
km / day X 200 days )
Late delivery :
Reversal of above calculation by deducting 1 % of AT per week of late delivery
, to arrive at PT ( Penalty
Tariff
and Penalty Amount )
[
E ]
Termination
In the event of supplier failing to deliver beyond 3 months of the stipulated
date, buyer reserves the right to
terminate the contract without notice but without prejudice to its claims under
aforementioned clauses
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It
is the same sad story of late ( by 2 years ? ) deliveries of 10,000 Electric
Cars ordered by EESL
on TATA Motors and M&M , in March 2017
As
of today, only
1,000 cars have been delivered – after 2 years of
waiting !
Starting
with my first email ( 16
Aug 2017 ) till the last one ( 12 Oct 2018 ) , I have sent 16 emails to EESL
, urging it to cancel this order and retender for Wet Leasing
[ EESL
: It is your move now ! ………………. 12 Oct 2018
]
Moral
of the ( Hi ) – Story :
#
Fool …………………………… Keeps making the same mistake , again and again . Never learns
#
Learner …………………….. Does not make the same mistake twice . Learns from own
mistake
#
Wise person …………….. Learns from mistakes of others – and avoids making
mistake in first place
#
? ? ? ? ? ………………. Goes to extreme length to defend a
mistake as something “ Unavoidable “
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05
April 2019
Rsvp
: hcp@RecruitGuru.com
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