Assembly clears Bill on road safety tax

HYDERABAD

The State Government would levy a roadworthy information taxation connected caller vehicles, with the Assembly passing an amendment to the Telangana Motor Vehicles Taxation Act. The taxation collected would beryllium deposited successful a peculiar relationship and would beryllium spent connected roadworthy information measures.

Transport and Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar explained that it was being imposed pursuing the amendments brought successful by the Centre to the Motor Vehicles Act. The roadworthy information taxation collected would beryllium ₹2,000 for two-wheelers, ₹5,000 for airy centrifugal vehicles and ₹10,000 for dense vehicles, but would not beryllium levied connected auto-rickshaws and tractor trolleys.

It was already being implemented successful Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and a fewer different States connected the caller vehicles purchased/registered. The amendment would regenerate quarterly taxation connected goods/transport vehicles to beingness taxation collected astatine 7.5% of the conveyance cost. He stated that the State would person automatic driving investigating stations arsenic successful Delhi soon.

Another measure passed was to wide the mode for constitution of 2 backstage universities successful the State -- Amity University astatine Mamidipalli successful Rangareddy territory and St. Mary’s Rehabilitation University astatine Deshmukhi successful Yadadri-Bhongir district.

Health Minister C. Damodar Rajanarasimha, connected behalf of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy holding the portfolio of Higher Education too, said that the 2 universities were being fixed motion pursuing their compliance of the adept committee report/recommendations and the authorities did not allot immoderate onshore to them. He stated that the rehabilitation assemblage would beryllium the archetypal specified assemblage successful South India to connection courses connected treatment/handling of disablement and intelligence disorders.

Members P. Harishbabu (BJP), Akbaruddin Owaisi (MIM) and K. Sambasiva Rao (CPI) expressed interest implicit the expanding privatisation of acquisition successful the State. They said 55% of the school-going property children were attending backstage schools and determination were lone 25 nonrecreational acquisition colleges tally by the authorities against 363 backstage ones.