In my view, increasing duties is a wrong thing to do. The IT sector crows when visa restrictions are put in and say that this is against free trade and that the world is a global village and competition will win. Extending that argument, what will the countries which are exporting these components say? They will too raise duties on anything that the country exports. The need of the hour is to reduce the consumption of oil by de-congesting the cities by developing alternate cities, increased use of public transport, efficient use of roads so that the traffic jams are kept to minimum. Any other measures are just a scarecrow of strong measures and will not achieve anything.
In my view, increasing duties is a wrong thing to do. The IT sector crows when visa restrictions are put in and say that this is against free trade and that the world is a global village and competition will win. Extending that argument, what will the countries which are exporting these components say? They will too raise duties on anything that the country exports. The need of the hour is to reduce the consumption of oil by de-congesting the cities by developing alternate cities, increased use of public transport, efficient use of roads so that the traffic jams are kept to minimum. Any other measures are just a scarecrow of strong measures and will not achieve anything.