The transport departments proposal to give relief in penalty and interest charged on the owners of different kind of vehicles concerned, if they made payment of road tax and other dues in one instalment, was also cleared. The vehicle owners could not make timely payment of taxes due to the lockdown arising from Covid-19. Similarly, relief will be provided to the owners of the rickety or 15-year-old vehicles, if they decided to end the registration and also dispose of their vehicles.
The cabinet approved the proposal to increase the annual income limit from Rs1.5 lakh to Rs2.5 lakh for the availing of post-matric Scholarship to the students from the backward and extremely backward classes.