{"id":303718,"date":"2018-10-03T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303718"},"modified":"2018-10-03T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:45:27","slug":"government-agrees-to-farmers-demand-to-keep-tractors-out-of-the-ngt-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/government-agrees-to-farmers-demand-to-keep-tractors-out-of-the-ngt-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Government agrees to farmers&#8217; demand to keep tractors out of the NGT list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303719 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181004-011248__01-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181004-011248__01-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181004-011248__01-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181004-011248__01-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181004-011248__01-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181004-011248__01-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181004-011248__01-696x481.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181004-011248__01-1068x739.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181004-011248__01-607x420.jpg 607w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181004-011248__01.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, on October 3 announced that the government has agreed to farmers&#8217; demand to keep tractors out of the list of banned vehicles by the National Green Tribunal (NGT).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shekhawat reportedly said, &#8220;NGT&#8217;s order is that diesel vehicles more than 10 years old can&#8217;t enter Delhi NCR. Farmers demanded that their tractors are equipment of agriculture and should be kept out of vehicles&#8217; list. Government agreed. Centre will make efforts with the government (Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana) of the region.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Minister&#8217;s statement comes after farmers called off the Kisan Kranti Padyatra today morning. At least 30,000 farmers walked and travelled in tractors to Delhi as a part of the march which started on September 23 by the Bharatiya Kisan Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The green tribunal had on November 26, 2016, banned diesel vehicles in Delhi-NCR that are over 10 years old, saying &#8220;they are the prime source of air pollution in Delhi&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, on October 3 announced that the government has agreed to farmers&#8217; demand to keep tractors out of the list of banned vehicles by the National Green Tribunal (NGT). Shekhawat reportedly said, &#8220;NGT&#8217;s order is that diesel vehicles more than 10 years old can&#8217;t enter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":303719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[817,5412,5413,5411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303720,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303718\/revisions\/303720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}