The document this year has been recast to include substantial “upgradations” over the previous versions. The whole document has been rationalized especially Chapter l “an overview of the Road Transport Sector” which now positions the Transport sector in terms of its contribution to GDP, Employment, Export, and passenger and freight traffic. Further, Chapter 6 on “Road Transport and Motor Vehicle Taxation” has been completely revamped and besides providing an estimate of the contribution made by the sector in terms of taxes at the Centre and State level, also provides an additional section on tax structure on automobiles, pre-GST and post GST.

The need for transforming conventional government offices into more efficient and transparent e-offices, eliminating huge amounts of paperwork has long been felt. The e-Office product pioneered by National Informatics Centre (NIC) aims to support governance by using more effective and transparent inter and intra-government processes. e-File, an integral part of the e-office suite is a system designed for Government departments, PSUs, and Autonomous bodies to enable a paperless office by scanning, registering, and routing the inward correspondences along with the creation of file, noting, referencing, correspondence attachment, draft for approvals and finally movement and tracking of files as well as receipts.

The index is a measure of the change in a group of related variables over two different situations. A Group of variables may be the prices of a specified set of commodities, the volumes of production in different sectors of industry, the marks obtained by a student in different subjects, and so on. Two different situations may be two different times, two different places, etc. Price indices in general combine prices of individual goods and quantity weights to track the percentage change in prices over time for a particular basket of goods. Implicitly, the quality of goods represented in a given time frame is assumed to be constant.

Road transport is a subject that has its major components in the services sector, infrastructure sector, and manufacturing sector. Road transport service accounted for 3.3 percent of the country’s gross value added.

Road transport is the dominant mode of transport in India, both in terms of traffic share and in terms of contribution to the national economy. Apart from facilitating the movement of goods and passengers, road transport plays a key role in promoting equitable socio-economic development across regions of the country. It also plays a vital role in the social and economic integration and development of the country. Easy accessibility, flexibility of operations, door-to-door service, and reliability have earned road transport a greater significance in both passenger and freight traffic vis-a-vis other modes of transport.