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Govt clears policy to permit quadricycles for commercial use in India

Electric version will also be allowed, says Nitin Gadkari

Quadricycles get nod after 6-year battle within automobile industry to stop Bajaj’s product
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Quadricycles get nod after 6-year battle within automobile industry to stop Bajaj’s product

Surajeet Das GuptaAjay Modi New Delhi
The ministry of road transport and highways has finally cleared a policy to permit quadricycles, a new category of vehicles, for commercial use in the country. A notification with details is expected soon.

Nitin Gadkari, the minister, told Business Standard, “We are also now working on another policy to permit electric quadricycles.” 

The automobile industry has fought among itself on the question of whether to permit quadricycles — these have four wheels like a passenger car. 

On one side was Bajaj Auto, the first company to showcase the product in India (they named it the ‘Qute’). It has been pushing to permit the

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