THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Electric vehicles will be encouraged in the state. From autos to KSRTC will switch to electrical technology.

Step by step, there will be only electric autos. Subsidy will be given to 10,000 electric autos this year.

Firms will be introduced in cities to charge electric batteries. Charging stations will be set up with the help of private entrepreneurs, the finance minister said.

KSRTC will switch to electric buses. In the first phase, all KSRTC buses will be made electric in the capital city.