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Govt Issues Draft Rules To Streamline, Simplify Permit Regime For Tourist Vehicles
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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has issued a draft notification to supersede the All India Tourist Vehicle (Authorisation or Permit) Rules, 2021, according to an official release.
The ministry has invited comments and suggestions from all the stakeholders on the draft notification, which was released on 11 November, within a period of thirty days.
"The rules notified in 2021 provided a significant boost to the tourism sector in India by streamlining and simplifying the permit regime for tourist vehicles," the Ministry of Road Transport said in a release on Tuesday (15 November).
"Now, with the proposed All India Tourist Vehicles (Permit) Rules, 2022, the tourist permit regime is proposed to be further streamlined and strengthened," it added.
To simplify the procedure for All India Permit applicants and to reduce compliance burden, the provision of authorisation and All India Tourist Permit has been made independent of each other.
More categories of tourist vehicles, with lesser permit fees for lesser capacity vehicles (less than ten) have been proposed. This is expected to provide considerable financial relief to smaller tourist operators having smaller vehicles with lower seating capacity as they will now be required to pay lower fees commensurate with the seating capacity of their vehicle(s).
To promote deployment of electric vehicles in large numbers a streamlined regulatory ecosystem at no cost to the operator(s) has been proposed.
