Key Highlights
- Hero Electric official India website is down
- Service Unavailable since almost two weeks
- Alleged FAME II subsidy fraud speculated to be the reason
Hero Electric has been amongst the first brands that started offering affordable electric two-wheeler in the Indian market. The company has been selling budget e-scooters for almost 15 years now but seems like it has landed in troubles and might be experiencing issues with operations. The official online website of Hero Elctric has been down for a while now. Is this just a technical glitch or some real troubles? Find out below:
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Hero Electric Website Service Unavailable? Temporary Glitch Or Real Troubles?
Hero Electric’s online website is apparently down since last two weeks. Just for reference, we are speaking of the heroelectric.in website that now shows “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” was functional before the brand allegedly came under scanner for FAME II subsidy frauds. Even if we click on the product pages that list up on Google after searching for the website, the same error shows up.
The earlier speculations suggested the website’s services were unavailable due to technical glitches. However, the same error being shown for almost two weeks at a stretch points otherwise. For those unaware with the FAME II subsidy misappropriation, it’s the fraud that’s associated with the subsidy on the parts that were meant to be imported but have been rather manufactured locally to get the maximum monetary benefits.
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Troubles Only For Hero Electric?
But it’s not just Hero Electric that has come under the radar for the FAME subsidy frauds. In fact, some of the other popular electric two wheeler manufacturers such as Okinawa and Benling India have also taken a hit for the same. All these three brands are said to have committed around Rs. 297 crore FAME II scheme which is governed by the Ministry of Heavy Industries in India.
