{"id":1001067,"date":"2026-04-04T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001067"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:21:06","slug":"karnataka-pralhad-joshi-fears-taxes-on-evs-will-derail-indias-emission-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/karnataka-pralhad-joshi-fears-taxes-on-evs-will-derail-indias-emission-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka: Pralhad Joshi fears taxes on EVs will derail India\u2019s emission targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi on Friday cautioned that Karnataka\u2019s move to withdraw road tax exemptions for electric vehicles (EVs) could raise India\u2019s crude import bill, encourage a shift back to fossil-fuel vehicles and derail climate targets. <\/p>\n<p>In a video message posted on X, Joshi said the state government\u2019s decision\u2014aimed at mopping up about Rs 250 crore\u2014was \u201cinsignificant\u201d relative to Karnataka\u2019s Rs 3.5 lakh crore budget, but could have disproportionate economic and environmental consequences. He argued that the policy reversal comes at a time when countries globally are incentivising clean mobility to cut emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi on Friday cautioned that Karnataka\u2019s move to withdraw road tax exemptions for electric vehicles (EVs) could raise India\u2019s crude import bill, encourage a shift back to fossil-fuel vehicles and derail climate targets. In a video message posted on X, Joshi said the state government\u2019s decision\u2014aimed at mopping up about Rs 250 crore\u2014was \u201cinsignificant\u201d relative to Karnataka\u2019s Rs 3.5 lakh crore budget, but could have disproportionate economic and environmental consequences. He argued that the policy reversal comes at a time when countries globally are incentivising clean mobility to cut emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}