Blog Posts by author Anumita Roychowdhury

Anumita Roychowdhury

Associate Director of CSE, and, head of the air pollution and clean transportation programme, campaigns for clean air and public health.

Snakes and ladder on diesel taxes

5 March 2010

It was our usual pre-budget musings -- Will you… Wont you…. free up the prices of transport fuels, or make diesel cars pay the same lifetime fuel excise as petrol cars.

Tags: diesel cars|Public Transport|Air Pollution

Make auto industry deliver on its promise

22 January 2010

Glitz and glamour dazzled. The lure of jazzy cars at the recently concluded auto show stirred up mass hysteria, clogged roads, brought the city to a near halt. The dream sellers had them all entrapped. But the dream had a green wrapper - small cars, SUVs meeting the most stringent us norms, electric vehicles, hybrid cars, even CNG and diesel hybrid buses! The show is over. But serious questions persist. Need urgent answers. The show is definitely not over…

Tags: Auto emission|Auto Technology|automobile industry|CSE|Vehicle Technology and Fuel