NITI Aayog Launches PACT and ZET Marketplace for Electric Trucks

The correct answer is Platform for Aggregating Clean Transport. The word that carries the meaning is aggregating, because the whole purpose of the platform is to pool the freight demand of shippers and logistics service providers so that it becomes large enough and visible enough to justify electric trucks on a corridor. Option A substitutes programme and accelerated, words that sound official and would fit a scheme but not this platform. Option C turns it into a partnership on alternative technology, a phrase from the renewable energy vocabulary. Option D makes it a cargo tracking portal, which is a logistics IT function and not what NITI Aayog launched here. Learn it with its twin, the Zero Emission Truck Marketplace, where truck makers, logistics firms, charge point operators, financiers and technology companies actually meet to strike deals.

The correct answer is from 201 vehicles to 826 vehicles, a rise of more than four times in a single year, which is the figure NITI Aayog used to show that the electric freight market has begun to move. Option B mixes two separate facts, because the figure of more than 3,000 refers to the electric medium and heavy-duty trucks already in operation across the country and is not the end point of that one-year jump. Options C and D give invented pairs that look plausible because they preserve a similar ratio. A third figure completes the picture: about 800 heavy electric trucks were sold in 2025, which the NITI Aayog Member cited as proof that the corridors still need strategic electrification. Keep the three numbers apart, 201 and 826 for the jump, 3,000 for the running fleet, 800 for one year of heavy truck sales.

The correct answer is about 70 per cent. The NITI Aayog Member used this share to argue that the main freight corridors must be electrified in a planned way rather than left to scattered pilot projects. He placed beside it a second figure that makes the argument sharper: heavy trucks are only 3 to 4 per cent of the vehicle fleet, yet they account for more than a third of the carbon emissions of the transport sector, so a small number of vehicles carries a large part of the problem. Options A, B and D give shares the release does not use. He named three constraints on the market, the fragmentation of logistics operators, the high cost of financing and the absence of coordinated corridor planning, and asked for blended finance and leasing models to bring the cost of capital for an electric truck nearer to that of a diesel truck.

The correct answer is NITI Aayog. The release describes e-FAST India, which expands to Electric Freight Accelerator for Sustainable Transport - India, as a platform led by NITI Aayog that brings government and industry together, including original equipment manufacturers, logistics service providers, financiers, shippers and charge point operators, with a focus on medium and heavy-duty vehicles. Options A and C name ministries that were present and active at the summit, since the Secretary of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways spoke there and an officer of the Ministry of Heavy Industries attended, but neither leads the platform. Option D names the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, which works on energy efficiency standards and did not figure here. Remember also what NITI Aayog is: the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India, charged with catalysing economic development and fostering cooperative federalism.