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PM to inaugurate first Global Mobility Summit today

PTI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Friday inaugurate the first Global Mobility Summit — MOVE — which among other things will deliberate on steps to promote electric vehicles and shared mobility, according to an official statement.

The two-day summit (September 7-8), being organised by Niti Aayog, will be attended by Union Ministers including Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Ravi Shankar Prasad, among others.

The summit will deliberate on five themes including comprehensive: electrification and alternative fuels, reinventing public transport, goods transport and logistics and data analytics and mobility, the statement said. Representatives of companies including Mahindra Electric, Hero Cycles, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Ola, Maruti Suzuki, Honda, Toyota, Bosch, Sun Mobility will also participate in the summit, it added.