India convenes panel to rate fuel efficiency

India’s Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath said the government has constituted a committee to decide how cars would be rated on the basis of fuel efficiency. “We have formed a four-member committee to prepare the norms for rating fuel efficiency of cars,” Kamal Nath said after formally inaugurating the 10th Auto Expo in New Delhi. The proposal to rate cars on the basis of fuel efficiency comes from the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). The power ministry is expected to implement it soon. (January 7, 2010)