Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 27: Federation of Automobile Dealership Associations (FADA)-Jammu Chapter met Transport Commissioner, Rahul Sharma under the leadership of Sanjay Aggarwal, its chairman along with Davinder Batra, Pradeep Jain and Regional Directors of Governing Body, Sahil Mahajan, Prateek Jain, Vikas Rathore, Manik Batra and Ashish Gupta
FADA is Federation of Automobile Dealership Associations, founded in 1964, is the Apex National Body of Automobile Retail Industry in India engaged in the sale, service and spares of 2/3 Wheelers, Passenger Cars, UVs, Commercial Vehicles (including Buses and Trucks) and Tractors. FADA India represents over 15000 Automobile Dealers having 26500 Dealerships including multiple Associations of Automobile Dealers at the regional, State and city levels representing the entire Auto Retail Industry. Together it employs 45 lac people at Auto Dealerships and Service Centres with continuous up-skilling and re-skilling.
Sanjay Aggarwal, appreciated the initiatives taken by the Department in digitalizing Automobile Trade with introduction of online services like Upload of Trade Certificates, Vehicle Registration and Online Licensing etc. to streamline processes.
He further highlighted the eight key concerns and pain points of sealer fraternity like, auto dealership trade certificate issues including renewal of trade certificate for five years minimum, trade certificate fee structure regularization as per CMVR, single trade certificate providing for multiple locational dealers and clearance of pending applications for trade certificate renewals.
He demanded that dealer Payments stuck in Vahan portal need to be released because huge amounts stuck therein have been hampering day to day financial operations of dealers.
He said model approval TAT & Minor cosmetic change need not to have approvals for those minor cosmetic changes in the upcoming models.
The rampant issue of vehicles coming from outside UT has been causing loss of revenue to our Government and business opportunity to auto dealers here and needs to be tackled.
He said UT Government needs to issue clear guidelines on the implementation of Vehicle Scrappage Policy in J&K.
People of Jammu and Kashmir are not having the privilege of alternate fuel CNG in the UT in comparison to other regions of the country.
Therefore, provisioning of installation of CNG Petrol Pumps here offer a fuel which is environmentally friendly, reduces maintenance cost, produces significantly less pollutants than petrol/diesel, offers natural gas which is cheaper and safer than petrol/diesel and a green fuel.
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