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Discourage production of costly cars in India

Kashmir Times. Dated: 3/18/2019 12:29:48 AM

Dear Editor,
Union Ministry of Road Transport permitted each manufacturer of cars and motor-bikes to import upto 2500 units of imported ones and also permitting upto 500 buses and trucks separately by each manufacturing company irrespective of price and engine-capacity. But there should be a pre-condition that foreign companies may help setting up of plants by concerned Indian companies to manufacture such vehicles in India too if so desired. To discourage use of economical diesel, cars and motor-bikes should be allowed only with petrol-engines. Import-duty on imported vehicles should be quite high because only affording ones can purchase these.
At the same time, central government should take steps to discourage costly vehicles by having double GST may be in form of cess on costlier cars and motor-bikes manufactured in India to be decided on basis of ex-factory price rather than on linear dimensions of cars as was the system earlier before implementation of GST in the country. In larger consumer-interest only two versions of cars should be allowed, one the basic model and the other one with all added luxuries apart from luxury version with automatic gears. Further production of diesel-cars should be altogether banned because diesel is deliberately priced lower than petrol because of its use in public-transport and goods-carriers.
—Subhash Chandra Agrawal,
1775 Kucha Lattushah
Dariba, Chandni Chowk Delhi.