Our exclusive interview with Vipin Sondhi, MD and CEO, Ashok Leyland, is now live! The COVID-19 pandemic has put the industry in a “very unique situation”, to put things mildly. But that doesn't mean recovery is impossible. Mr. Sondhi emphasises the importance of lower GST, an incentive-based vehicle scrappage policy and accelerated rural infrastructure investment as key policy drivers that could help the industry get back on its feet. A lot depends on how fast the economy starts moving forward and that can only happen once all of us start going back to work. The CV industry will duly follow suit - after all, as Mr. Sondhi puts it, "Wherever there is consumption, there is demand for a truck!"
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