Prime Minister Modi to flag off a fleet of 11 e-boats in Varanasi to make the city pollution free

Prime Minister Modi to flag off a fleet of 11 e-boats in Varanasi to make the city pollution free Varanasi is the constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and, in order to make the holy city free of pollution and also free from congestion, he will be dropping in on the city to distribute e-boats to the boatmen – it will be a first for the country.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 28 April 2016.

The move is being seen as PM Modi's first direct outreach to the famed boatmen of the holy city. He will flag off a fleet of 11 e-boats on May 1. Before the flagging off, he will have an interaction at one of the Ganga ghats with boatmen from the nishad community.
Ultimately, all the traditional row boats in Varanasi will be replaced by 3,000 medium-sized battery-operated boats within the span of a year. The batteries would be solar powered and the boatmen can steer the boats with ease. At the end of the day, boats will be 100% green with diesel engines gone. Moreover, the e-boats will be noiseless.


Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org

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