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The Indian side, led by Road Transport Joint Secretary Alok Rawat, suggested during the talks that passengers travelling on the proposed service be made to carry entry permits along with passports.
While the most obvious beneficiary of this roll-out will be manufacturers of FASTags, or the Radio Frequency Identification chips, a PwC report says implementation of a pan-India electronic toll collection system on national highways may help save approximately Rs 87,000 crore annually.
These notes can be used at government hospitals, railway ticketing, public transport, airline ticketing at airports, milk booths, crematoria/burial grounds, petrol pumps, metro rail tickets, purchase of medicines on doctor prescription from the government and private pharmacies, LPG gas cylinders, railway catering, electricity and water bills and ASI monument entry tickets. Highway toll has been scrapped till November 14.
Even as several trains have more than 200 waitlisted passengers every day, running some trains with so many vacant seats is a criminal waste of scarce resource.
The Hyderabad Union Cabinet's surprise and sudden move to take up the Telangana note for consideration has inflamed the passions of people in Seemandhra regions and several organisations have called for a 72-hour strike in 13 districts of two regions from Friday.
The panel will submit its recommendations to a ministerial committee, headed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
The impact of the strike was most visible in the road transport sector where majority of unions joined the 'stay-away' protest.
The GPS will monitor the movement of buses, its speed, number of passengers, vacant seats, stoppages, etc.
The Bombay high court on Wednesday refused to interfere in Maharashtra government's move to hike fares of taxis and auto rickshaws based on the recommendation of the now-scrapped Hakim Committee.
The Muzaffarabad bus is not insured, however, the state road transport corporation has funds for any contingency.
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday sought the Bombay high court's approval for the proposed auto and taxi fare hike.
MCA is a legal contract, which prescribes the terms and conditions for executing a road project.
A government-instituted panel which probed the extent of non-compliance by General Motors in re-fitting pre-approved engines on Tavera models sent for inspection to meet specified emission norms, submitted its report late on Monday evening, holding the company responsible for corporate fraud.
Neeraj Prakash, MD, Shriram General Insurance, explains how new measures proposed in the Motor Vehicles Act can smoothen the lives of the insured and insurer and how the government plans to make more vehicles owners buy insurance.
Principal Secy Alapan Bandyopadhyay would arrive by the bus.
The buses will have a reduced floor height of 860mm, as against the normal 1050 mm, for easier boarding, with two-step entry. They also conform to BS III emission standards
'The AMs are a different beast and reflect the political play within the government.' 'Prime Minister Modi does not need to assuage any interest group to take the final call on any decision that belongs rightfully to the Cabinet,' points out Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.
Several ministers in his government joined Naidu in the fast, which was held in all 13 districts of the state.
The central government's highway award and construction target for the current fiscal is dominated by the Bharatmala scheme.
New Airavat Volvo air-conditioned buses have been introduced between Mumbai and Bangalore.
The Indian delegation will comprise officials from the ministries of external affairs, road transport and highways and the Rajasthan government.
"Only 24 tickets have been sold so far. We are hopeful that the others will also turn up," an official of the State Road Transport Corporation, which is running the service, said.
"We have collected the complete bio-data of both the drivers of the State Road Transport Corporation. They are warned not to play with their lives by driving these buses," four militant groups said.
The project worth about Rs 5,000 crore is underway with assistance from the World Bank.
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