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Proposal to reduce petroleum consumption country-wide das - 2-MAR-2013
Would it make sense for Praja to spearhead a proposal to fix the country's fiscal and current account deficit problems by moving to less fuel-intensive modes of transportation country-wide ? Taken to the central govt., RBI, economic think tanks, etc. |
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sanjayv - 19-SEP-2012
<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This is the transcript of a facebook thread following BESCOM posting their financial statement online. They invited comments and some questions were asked by me and others which I am selectively reproducing here for all to read, with credits. |
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Fuel Subsidies, Road user fee - Common sense prevails, At Last Naveen - 22-DEC-2011
Some positive developments - long overdue, though not very comforting for the car-dependent public in bangalore. Following are excerpts from an on-line headline news portal : |
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Naveen - 23-FEB-2009
One of my danish colleagues had remarked that our country, instead of helping the poor & taxing the rich, was subsidising the car users with lower fuel costs since all oil imports were being sold at lesser price than what they actually cost in India. |
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Unravelling Myths about Subsidies in Urban Transport shas3n - 19-AUG-2008
In a recent article published by Ashok Sreenivas and Girish Sant in EPW, they demonstrate that private vehicles get more subsidy from Goverment than public trans |