Post by Pahlé India Foundation (PIF)

A delivery worker in Delhi spends ten hours a day on a petrol two-wheeler, earning ₹700 on a good day. From 2027, he won't be able to register a new petrol auto but the electric one, even after subsidy, still costs more than he can reach. Delhi's Draft EV Policy 2026 is the most serious commitment the city has made to ending petrol. The harder question is who actually breathes cleaner air at the end of it. In CarbonCopy, Dr Urvashi Prasad, Dr Jyoti Yadav, and Dr Sayoudh Roy from Pahlé India Foundation (PIF) argue that ambition alone won't deliver a just transition. Three gaps still stand in the way: evidence built on data that's now eight years old, charging infrastructure at less than a quarter of what's needed, and an equity gap that leaves the city's most exposed workers behind. A clean-air policy is only as clean as the lives it actually reaches. 🔗 Read the full in CarbonCopy: https://lnkd.in/g-8pPQPy #DelhiEVPolicy #CleanAir #PolicyResearch #ViksitBharat2047