Diesel Ban: The Annual Conventions of industrial bodies and other organisations have fallen into a conventional and predictable pattern. SIAM 2023 annual meet also was no exception. But it made a difference and a hustle and bustle reaching up to the bourses when the Union minister Nitin Gadkari spoke about a 10% pollution tax on diesel, though he retracted from it later.
Diesel Passenger Vehicle Sales: "It is a natural phenomenon that as the emission regulations keep tightening, the cost of acquisition will keep increasing, and this process (decline in diesel vehicle percentage) will be much faster going forward," Maruti Suzuki India Senior Executive Officer (Marketing & Sales) Shashank Srivastava told reporters here on the sidelines of SIAM annual convention.