Vehicle location tracking devices mandatory for oxygen containers: MoRTH
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Last Updated: May 04, 2021, 02:08 PM IST
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GPS tracking will ensure proper monitoring and protection of these tankers, besides ensuring that there is no diversion or delay.
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The Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH)Ministry has made it mandatory for oxygen containers, tankers and vehicles to be fitted with Vehicle Location Tracking (VLT) devices.
GPS tracking will ensure proper monitoring and protection of these tankers, besides ensuring that there is no diversion or delay. MoRTH has made it mandatory for #Oxygen containers/tankers/vehicles to be fitted with Vehicle Location Tracking (VLT) devices. GPS tracking will ensure monitoring and protection of these tankers, besides ensuring there is no diversion or delay, the ministry said in a tweet.
Construction of National Highways touches 37 km per day, informs ministry ANI | Updated: Apr 02, 2021 11:18 IST
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): The ministry of road, transport and highways (MoRTH) on Friday said that the construction of National Highways had touched 37 kilometres per day in the year 2020-21. The ministry has achieved the record-breaking milestone of constructing 37 kilometres highways per day in the year 2020-21, which is unprecedented, it said.
It further said that over the last seven years, the length of National Highways has gone up by 50 per cent from 91,287 km as of April 2014 to 1,37,625 km as on March 20, 2021. Total budgetary outlay increased by 5.5 times, from Rs 33,414 crore in financial year 2015 to Rs 1,83,101 crore in Financial Year 2022, the ministry said.
Road Ministry Achieves A New Milestone, Constructs Record 37 Km Highways Per Day In FY21
by Swarajya Staff - Apr 2, 2021 05:30 AM
Prime Minster Narendra Modi with Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari. (Gurpreet Singh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
The Modi government has achieved the record-breaking milestone of constructing 37 kilometres highways per day in year 2020-21, which is unprecedented.
Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari on Thursday (1 April) felicitated the officials of the ministry and presented the letters of appreciation.
The Minister said that this would not have been possible without dedication and teamwork of the officials and other stakeholders. He said that these achievements are unprecedented and have no parallel in any other country in the world, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement.
0 Comments The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has issued a draft rule proposing that the purchase of any new motor vehicle shall be eligible for a road tax concession against a Vehicle Scrappage Certificate.
Private vehicles will get up to 25 percent concession on road tax.
Commercial vehicles will get up to 15 percent concession on road tax.
Concession only offered if Scrappage certificate is issued within 15 year of registration. According to the MoRTH circular, this draft rule is slated to come into effect from October 1, 2021.
MoRTH road tax concession proposal As per the MoRTH proposal, road tax concession of up to 25 percent will be available on the purchase of a new car, if the buyer has a Vehicle Scrappage Certificate for a private vehicle. If the buyer has a certificate for a commercial vehicle, only a concession of up to 15 percent will be offered.