{"id":278880,"date":"2019-06-18T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278880"},"modified":"2019-06-18T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T05:52:00","slug":"impose-green-cess-on-polluting-vehicles-to-support-evs-smev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/impose-green-cess-on-polluting-vehicles-to-support-evs-smev\/","title":{"rendered":"Impose green cess on polluting vehicles to support EVs: SMEV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle makers\u2019 body SMEV Monday called for imposition of \u2018green cess\u2019 on polluting vehicles besides seeking putting of EVs in priority lending sector to accelerate creation of a robust ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>In its Budget wish list, the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) also asked the government for a dedicated allocation for \u2018clean air\u2019 campaign, which could be integrated under the Swachh Bharat Mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly advocate the imposition of a notional green cess on the polluting vehicles and use it to accelerate electric mobility,\u201d SMEV Director General Sohinder Gill said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle makers\u2019 body SMEV Monday called for imposition of \u2018green cess\u2019 on polluting vehicles besides seeking putting of EVs in priority lending sector to accelerate creation of a robust ecosystem. In its Budget wish list, the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) also asked the government for a dedicated allocation for \u2018clean air\u2019 campaign, which could be integrated under the Swachh Bharat Mission. \u201cWe strongly advocate the imposition of a notional green cess on the polluting vehicles and use it to accelerate electric mobility,\u201d SMEV Director General Sohinder Gill said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}