{"id":603252,"date":"2023-09-13T10:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T04:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=603252"},"modified":"2023-09-13T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T05:51:35","slug":"gadkari-talks-of-10-more-tax-on-diesel-vehicles-later-clarifies-no-proposal-under-govt-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gadkari-talks-of-10-more-tax-on-diesel-vehicles-later-clarifies-no-proposal-under-govt-consideration\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari talks of 10% more tax on diesel vehicles, later clarifies no proposal under govt consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday spoke of the need to levy an additional 10 per cent tax on diesel-run vehicles to help cut emissions, but later clarified that there was no proposal under government consideration to impose such a tax.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the annual convention of automobile manufacturers body SIAM, Gadkari said rising pollution level is a serious health concern and there is a case for increasing taxes to dissuade sale of diesel vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am requesting the Finance Minister to impose an additional 10 per cent GST on diesel engines\/vehicles. This is the only way to phase out diesel vehicles,&#8221; he said, indicating a meeting was scheduled with the Finance Minister for handing over a letter he had drafted on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday spoke of the need to levy an additional 10 per cent tax on diesel-run vehicles to help cut emissions, but later clarified that there was no proposal under government consideration to impose such a tax. Speaking at the annual convention of automobile manufacturers body SIAM, Gadkari said rising pollution level is a serious health concern and there is a case for increasing taxes to dissuade sale of diesel vehicles. &#8220;I am requesting the Finance Minister to impose an additional 10 per cent GST on diesel engines\/vehicles. This is the only way [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603252","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=603252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}