Sorry, Indian govt. is looking at EVs as a job creation engine. Charging stations, sales and service stations, investments in grid upgrades and installation of renewable energy sources, focus on green Hydrogen, etc.
It is true there is a need to improve infrastructure, but that can be a positive thing to generate employment and invest for the future.
There is also the idea that undeveloped places need to use oil and gas to industrialize just like Europe, the US and China did. The problem with that is there simply was never enough supply.
A guy named Robert C. Townsend wrote a book about running corporations. A generally extendable warning he wrote about is you can't grow a business by aping established companies and their historical path to success. Whatever angle and opportunities they exploited often no longer exist. And what they do currently makes sense for them not you.
Skipping landlines and going right to mobile is an example of that.
It is true there is a need to improve infrastructure, but that can be a positive thing to generate employment and invest for the future.