The Niti Aayog has proposed a host of fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, including extension of the production-linked incentive scheme to vehicles run on liquified natural gas and setting up a demand aggregator, to encourage use of LNG in medium and heavy commercial vehicles. This will help lower carbon dioxide emissions and contribute towards the national goal of a gas-based economy by increasing the share of natural gas in the primary energy mix to 15% by 2030, the Aayog said in a report jointly prepared with the Netherlands embassy. According to the Aayog, India's rapidly expanding trucking market, which is expected to more than quadruple from 4 million trucks in 2022 to roughly 17 million by 2050, offers immense scope for lowering emissions and encouraging investments for growth.
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