India’s auto PLI scheme has been tweaked to focus on electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, along with advanced automotive technologies. Internal combustion engine vehicles have been kept out of the scheme. The scheme looks good on paper, with the aim to bring about clean mobility in the future. But as we will see, a lot of the PLI scheme’s elements fall into the old trap that India’s industrial and trade policies are so used to. Let's watch.

India's auto PLI scheme has been tweaked to focus on electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, along with advanced automotive technologies. Internal combustion engine vehicles have been kept out of the scheme. The scheme looks good on paper, with the aim to bring about clean mobility in the future. But as we will see, a lot of the PLI scheme's elements fall into the old trap that India's industrial and trade policies are so used to. Let's watch.

Has India's auto PLI scheme got it wrong with clean mobility focus?

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"The focus on factual accuracy is both rare and crucial," said Ajay Kumar, Senior Business Leader, AI Evangelist and a Board Advisor at Vexoo Labs.
He said most AI tools today are built for showcase, not for reliability.
In the industrial alleys of Rajkot, the looms of Tiruppur, and the machining units of Coimbatore, India's small and mid-sized manufacturers are facing a silent crisis, he noted.
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A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Manmohan observed that prima facie, the high court could not have stayed the order after holding that the appeal filed by the Commissioner of CGST and Central Excise, Belapur Commissionerate, was not maintainable.
"A high court is not the custodian of the revenue," the apex court, which stayed the high court's June 12 order, observed.
"Prima facie, the high court could not have passed the order of stay after holding the appeal to be not maintainable and after recording that the writ petition and the appeal are disposed of as not pressed," the bench said in its order passed on June 20.
The top court passed the order while hearing a plea filed by the firm, challenging the high court order.
The bench noted that the 

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The Kerala Raj Bhavan on Saturday termed as "absolutely baseless" the reports that it proposes to seek protection by the central forces for the Governor in view of the protests against him by some youth and student organisations.
In a statement, the Raj Bhavan said there was no such move or plan on its part and that there was no threat -- direct or indirect -- to the Governor.
It further said that Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has total faith in the commitment to duty and efficiency of the Kerala Police in the discharge of their responsibility.
"They have been performing their duty extremely well and to the best of the Raj Bhavan's satisfaction. The Raj Bhavan, Kerala strongly rules out any threat, direct or indirect, to the Governor," the statement said.
The Raj Bhavan said that the reports being carried out by a section of the media are "much ado about nothing and are only a figment of their imagination and speculation".
"The media people are hereby requested to restrain 

It further said that Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has total faith in the commitment to duty and efficiency of the Kerala Police in the discharge of their responsibility

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Friday presented a Rs 40,187 crore-budget for the megapolis.
Infrastructure spends across projects have been pegged at Rs 35,151 crore or 87 per cent of the overall expenditure, as per an official statement. The revenues have been estimated at Rs 36,939 crore, and the body chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will be borrowing Rs 22,000 crore.
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Over Rs 5,697 crore have been allotted for multiple tunnel projects which are going across the megapolis, with Rs 2,684 crore earmarked for the four-lane road running under the Sanjay Gandhi National 

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The House also returned the Appropriation Bill (3) with a voice vote.
Earlier in the day, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had moved the two bills in the House.
The Lok Sabha had passed the Finance Bill on March 25 and passed the Appropriation Bill on March 21.
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