New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- The expert committee constituted by Delhi-NCR's air quality body, Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), to recommend steps to reduce vehicular pollution, wants to impose annual mandates on all carmakers to sell electric vehicles (EVs) from the next financial year, failing which it will impose stiff penalties.

According to a presentation reviewed by Mint, the committee wants all carmakers to have one-fifth of their private four-wheeler sales to be electric vehicles in the Delhi-NCR region from the next financial year, which will progressively increase to 45%, 70%, and 100% in the following financial years. Moreover, the committee also wants all new four-wheeler taxis to be electric from 1 April 2027.

The pla...