{"id":282793,"date":"2019-07-17T06:55:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282793"},"modified":"2019-07-17T06:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:55:43","slug":"wont-ban-petrol-diesel-vehicles-says-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wont-ban-petrol-diesel-vehicles-says-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Won\u2019t ban petrol, diesel vehicles, says Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Automobile industry must make the transition to cleaner sources of fuel at the earliest, minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Gadkari said there is a concern that the government will ban internal combustion engine (ICE)-vehicles, but it is well aware of the contribution that India\u2019s automobile industry is making to the country\u2019s exports and employment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is speculation on banning the existing industry, but we are not doing it. We understand that it contributes to the country\u2019s exports and employment, but the switch over must happen at the earliest and (manufacturers must) move to electric, biofuel,\u201d Gadkari said during the discussion on demand for grants for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Automobile industry must make the transition to cleaner sources of fuel at the earliest, minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. Gadkari said there is a concern that the government will ban internal combustion engine (ICE)-vehicles, but it is well aware of the contribution that India\u2019s automobile industry is making to the country\u2019s exports and employment. \u201cThere is speculation on banning the existing industry, but we are not doing it. We understand that it contributes to the country\u2019s exports and employment, but the switch over must happen at the earliest and (manufacturers must) move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282793","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}