{"id":603543,"date":"2023-09-14T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T05:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=603543"},"modified":"2023-09-14T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T06:36:12","slug":"gadkari-talks-of-10-per-cent-more-tax-on-diesel-vehicles-later-clarifies-no-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gadkari-talks-of-10-per-cent-more-tax-on-diesel-vehicles-later-clarifies-no-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari talks of 10 per cent more tax on diesel vehicles, later clarifies no proposal"},"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>\u201cI 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,\u201d he said,<\/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. \u201cI 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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603543","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=603543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}