{"id":280035,"date":"2019-07-03T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280035"},"modified":"2019-07-03T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T07:08:07","slug":"northern-states-meet-to-discuss-road-safety-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/northern-states-meet-to-discuss-road-safety-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern States meet to discuss road-safety measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven northern States, National Capital Territory of Delhi and union territory of Chandigarh on Tuesday decided to push for harmonization of motor vehicle taxes, strengthening of road-safety measures and signing of reciprocal common transport agreements to facilitate the commuters.<\/p>\n<p>They  here to discuss road-safety measures and policy changes for strengthening public transport undertakings in northern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Though the State Governments could not reach a consensus over the proposal framed for harmonization of motor vehicle tax, they decided to take the matter in the next meeting to be held in Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous meeting held in Guwahati last year, the Group of Ministers constituted by the Ministry of Road Transport &amp; Highways had recommended 8 percent tax of vehicles (personal purposes) below Rs 10 lakh, 10 percent for vehicles worth Rs 10-20 lakh, 12 percent for vehicles above Rs 12 lakh besides two percent extra charge for diesel vehicles and two percent less tax for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven northern States, National Capital Territory of Delhi and union territory of Chandigarh on Tuesday decided to push for harmonization of motor vehicle taxes, strengthening of road-safety measures and signing of reciprocal common transport agreements to facilitate the commuters. They here to discuss road-safety measures and policy changes for strengthening public transport undertakings in northern part of the country. Though the State Governments could not reach a consensus over the proposal framed for harmonization of motor vehicle tax, they decided to take the matter in the next meeting to be held in Delhi. In a previous meeting held in Guwahati [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,213,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280035","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}