Auto sales: Govt took the bold step of charging the proper price of car driving | The Indian Express

Auto sales: Govt took the bold step of charging the proper price of car driving | The Indian Express

Written by Meghnad Desai |Updated: September 15, 2019 9:43:43 am

Meghnad Desai loves to cook, watch and write about old Bollywood movies and shuttles between London, Delhi and Goa. He pursues controversies on economics, history and anything else which catches his attention. He is also a British parliamentarian sitting in the House of Lords. He has written over 25 books, over 200 articles in learned journals and hundreds of newspaper columns in UK and India.

Auto sales: Govt took the bold step of charging the proper price of car driving

Yet much worse is happening with the Motor Vehicles Act, a fine piece of legislation to make car drivers behave in a responsible fashion.

It is the first time the government has taken a grown-up view of cars and stopped indulging the car-owner rather than the pedestrian.

Whatever you do, do not try to make people virtuous in a democracy.