{"id":430339,"date":"2021-08-12T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430339"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:09:37","slug":"morth-amends-two-schemes-to-boost-battery-operated-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/morth-amends-two-schemes-to-boost-battery-operated-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"MoRTH amends two schemes to boost battery-operated vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) Ministry on Wednesday said that it has amended two schemes to facilitate the operation of battery-operated and methanol and ethanol-driven vehicles. &#8220;In the Rent-a-Cab Scheme, 1989, in paragraph 1, in clause (3), after the words and figures \u2015section 88 of the Act, the following shall be inserted, namely: &#8211; \u2015and the battery operated motor cabs and motor cabs driven on methanol and ethanol exempted from the provisions of section 66 of the Act,&#8221; the MoRTH said in notification issued on August 5.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry had received representations from a few states regarding issues in implementing the two schemes, because of the exemption given to these vehicles from the requirement of permit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) Ministry on Wednesday said that it has amended two schemes to facilitate the operation of battery-operated and methanol and ethanol-driven vehicles. &#8220;In the Rent-a-Cab Scheme, 1989, in paragraph 1, in clause (3), after the words and figures \u2015section 88 of the Act, the following shall be inserted, namely: &#8211; \u2015and the battery operated motor cabs and motor cabs driven on methanol and ethanol exempted from the provisions of section 66 of the Act,&#8221; the MoRTH said in notification issued on August 5. The Ministry had received representations from a few states regarding issues in [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430339","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=430339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}