No Additional Passenger/Road Tax for Plying Taxi/Auto Across the NCR

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Press Information Bureau

Government of India

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Ministry of Urban Development

No Additional Passenger/Road Tax for Plying Taxi/Auto Across the NCR

New Delhi: August 25, 2010.

 

NCR permit holder taxi operators operating on CNG are not require to pay any additional passenger/road tax while entering other State in NCR". If any official/officer asks for any such additional passenger/road tax from NCR permit holder taxis in NCR, then following persons can be contacted for complaint:

 

Rajasthan Sub-region
Shri Harish Sharma, RTO, Alwar	09460981331
UP Sub-region
Shri Lalji Chawdhary, RTO, Ghaziabad             Shri V.K. Singh, RTO, Meerut	09810374901 09811850061
Haryana Sub-region
Shri Dharmender Singh, RTO, Faridabad	09999991787, 0129-2285777
Delhi
Shri Ramanathan, MLO (Taxi Unit), Burari, Delhi	09868104828

This has been conveyed by NCR Planning Board for the information of general public and taxi operators in NCR region. The area of NCR constitutes whole of NCT Delhi and districts of Faridabad, Gurgaon, Rohtak, Sonepat, Rewari, Jhajjar, Mewat, Palwal and Panipat of Haryana; districts of Meerut, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahar and Baghpat of Uttar Pradesh and Alwar district of Rajasthan. 

 

According to NCR Board, one of the policy proposals of the Regional Plan-2021 for the National Capital Region (NCR) is unrestricted movement of Contract Carriage like taxis, and auto-rickshaws within NCR. This policy is important to facilitate general public commuting between Delhi and the rest of NCR and passengers who board/alight at the airport, railway stations and bus stations in Delhi and have to hire taxi/ auto rickshaw to reach their place of residence/ work outside Delhi but within NCR.

 

The "Reciprocal Common Transport Agreement among Governments of NCT-Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh of NCR for unrestricted movement of vehicles in NCR" for 'Contract Carriage' was signed on 14.10.08 and its implementation is underway by the State Governments of NCR Constituent States. According to NCR Board, under this agreement, 'NCR Taxis' have started plying in NCR region.

 

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Press Information Bureau

Government of India

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Consultative Committee of Health Discusses Aids Control Programme

New Delhi: August 25, 2010.

 

The Parliamentary Consultative Committee of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare met here today to discuss National AIDS Control Programme Phase-III (2007-12). Addressing the Members the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad said that a significant chunk of the estimated populations of high risk groups and populations of truckers and migrants have been reached through targeted interventions which have been successful in bringing down the prevalence of HIV in the southern states.

 

The Minister informed that a total of 143.8 lakh clients including 61.2 lakh expecting mothers were counseled in the Integrated Counseling and Testing Centres (ICDCs) across the country during 2009-10. In order to increase awareness NACO launched Red Ribbon Express on World AIDS Day 1st December 2009. This is the largest mass mobilization campaign on HIV AIDS in the world covering 152 stations in 22 states. The Red Ribbon Express is currently working its way through Madhya Pradesh before moving on to Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir before returning to Delhi on 1st December 2010. For people living with HIV AIDS, 64 new anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centres have been established in last one year. 89,000 new patients are receiving free ART treatment. 21 New Community Care Centre and 367 Link ART Centres have been established in the last one year. Generic anti-retroviral drugs by Indian Companies have brought down the cost of first line treatment from US $ 800 per year, a few year back, to US $ 10 a month at present. The HIV epidemic has seen some stabilization as adult HIV prevalence is now estimated at 0.31 percent as compared to 0.36 percent in 2006. The six high prevalence states have shown a declining trend in prevalence, the Minister said.

 

Shri Azad informed that a National Strategy to tackle the increasing trend of HIV positivity amongst migrants is being put in place as states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Rajasthan where out migration is high need to be watched carefully.

 

The Members of the Consultative Committee raised the issues of universally accepted nomenclature, involvement of educational institutions, blood safety, wider testing, social stigma and use of local languages for the awareness purposes.

 

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