the authority is planning a tie-up with a government-backed agency for setting up infrastructure for mobility based on clean energy.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is signed between Noida Authority and EESL, a joint venture of public sector undertakings under the Union Ministry of Power, a senior official said.

“Survey work is underway to finalise the spots where these stations will come up. There will be 100 stations across Noida. Three of them — at Indira Gandhi Kala Kendra and commercial hubs of Sector 18 and Sector 62 — are proposed to come up within a week of the signing of the MoU,” an authority official said.

The MoU  signed in the presence of NOIDA Chairperson Alok Tandon, CEO Ritu Maheshwari and EESL Managing Director Saurabh Kumar, the official said.

According to the official, the authority is also planning to lease five electric vehicles from EESL to be used for official purposes.

Work is underway at other six sites for charging stations. Three of these stations will be on road, while three off road, with each having a capacity of at least 11 kV, they said. Vehicle growth in the country has been rapid in the recent years, with ownership per 1,000 population increasing from 53 in 2001 to 167 in 2015, according to 2018 NITI Aayog report ‘Zero Emission Vehicles: Towards a Policy Framework’.

Earlier this year, the central government had issued a set of guidelines to set up charging stations for electric vehicles across the country, outlining ways to build such fuelling points every 25 km.

According to the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, the government expects 25 per cent of the total vehicles on roads will be electric vehicles by 2030, necessitating to erect robust electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure across the country.

The ministry had made amendments to the Model Building Byelaws (MBBL) 2016 and the Urban Regional Development Plans Formulation and Implementation (URDPFI) Guidelines 2014, making provisions for establishing EV charging infrastructure.

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Providing relief to the Amrapali home buyers in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida and Greater Noida, the top court handed over all pending projects to the National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited (NBCC). As many as 42,000 flats are awaiting completion in various Amrapali projects.

The court cancelled registration of Amrapali under RERA, thereby banning the real estate company from undertaking any housing project even in future.

A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra held that Noida and Greater Noida authorities were complicit as builders played a fraud upon the home buyers and siphoned off their money by diverting it to create personal assets of the Amrapali CMD and directors.

The court held that these authorities cannot be allowed to now receive their outstanding loan to Amrapali from these home buyers.

“They have been defrauded once and this court cannot allow them to be defrauded all over again,” said the bench as it added that even bankers cannot extract their loans from the home buyers.

According to the bench, also comprising Justice Uday U Lalit, the home buyers will pay only towards completion of their houses and they cannot be burdened with the loans Amrapali owed either to the authorities or the banks. It said that they can recover only from the assets of the Amrapali functionaries that stand attached under the orders of the court.

The bench further ordered an investigation by the Enforcement Directorate into the aspect of money laundering. It asked ED to submit periodic reports of investigation in the court.

The bench fixed August 9 as the next date of hearing.

The apex court also expanded the ambit of the petitions by the aggrieved home buyers of Amrapali, and directed the central government to take stock of pending housing development projects across all states.

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