Sundaram Motors launches all new Mercedes-Benz EQC 400 4MATIC in Bengaluru
‘Luxury now has electric in India’
Bangalore: TVS Sundaram Motors launched the all new Mercedes-Benz EQC 400 4MATIC at their Kasturba Road showroom, Bengaluru on 8th Oct 2020.
"Bengaluru’s ambitious, upwardly mobile trendsetters will now be able to experience a new era of e-mobility and sustainable luxury in the Indian automotive landscape" a press release from the showroom stated.
Complete hassle-free ownership experience of EQC: Individual household feasibility survey, wall box installations at home or office, all-inclusive in car price, EQC Service & Warranty: Comprehensive service packages offering complete ease of ownership to customers:
a) 5 years unlimited kms Comprehensive Service Package
b) 5 years unlimited kms Extended Warranty
c) 5 years unlimited On-Road Assistance will be the key features, it added.
First time in the auto industry: Mercedes-Benz India is going to offer the ‘industry first’ 8 years or 1,60,000 kms (whichever is earlier) battery cover for the EQC, the release further added.
Buy-back value for EQC: Assured buy back value for 3 years during the time of purchase for customers.
Other features include
Attractive EMI from DFS India with STAR Aglity: 40% lower EMI with Star Agility for a loan tenure of 3 years, starting at an attractive INR 144,111 per month.
• EQC charging ecosystem: Mercedes-Benz’s densest network spread across India will support any charging & service related requirements for the EQC customers :
a) The EQC has a range of 450 km (as per WLTP) at one full charge | Highly suitable for all kind of intracity travel and daily usability
b) For any intercity travel, Mercedes-Benz India has 100+ charging points in 48 cities across the country which are equipped with wall box charging facility
c) In addition, EQC head unit via navigation will guide customers to the nearest public charging station
• The new Mercedes-Benz EQC is priced at INR 99.30 lakhs (all prices are ex-showroom, India) Price includes for the first 50 units: AC Wall Box charger, home electrical charger, 5 years unlimited on-road assistance, 5 years comprehensive service package, 5 year unlimited kilometers extended warranty, 8 years/160000kms battery cover
To know more about EQC, visit or call Sundaram Motors at +91-9148155175. Or email us at panchajanya.c@sundarammotors.com
About TVS Sundaram Motors
Sundaram Motors, a division of T V Sundram Iyengar & Sons Private Ltd, is an authorized dealer for Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars in the states of Karnataka & Tamil Nadu, and has been in the automobile industry for over six decades. Sundaram Motors started its Mercedes-Benz dealership in Karnataka in the year 2001 and in Tamil Nadu in the year 2003 at Coimbatore. Sundaram Motors is known for the solid and widely acclaimed lineage of trust, value and service. Sundaram Motors believes in total customer satisfaction and constantly strives to improve quality standards to achieve excellence.
Mercedes-Benz Sundaram Motors network- Bangalore, Chennai, Mangalore, Coimbatore, Madurai, Salem – Sales/Service | AMG Performance Center – Bangalore | Mercedes-Benz Certified – Karnataka & Tamil Nadu
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Single higher education regulator bill tabled in LS; Oppn flags ‘centralisation,' JPC likely
New Delhi: A bill to set up a 13-member body to regulate institutions of higher education was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan introduced the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, which seeks to establish an overarching higher education commission along with three councils for regulation, accreditation, and ensuring academic standards for universities and higher education institutions in India.
Meanwhile, the move drew strong opposition, with members warning that it could weaken institutional autonomy and result in excessive centralisation of higher education in India.
The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025, earlier known as the Higher Education Council of India (HECI) Bill, has been introduced in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
The proposed legislation seeks to merge three existing regulatory bodies, the University Grants Commission (UGC), the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), into a single unified body called the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan.
At present, the UGC regulates non-technical higher education institutions, the AICTE oversees technical education, and the NCTE governs teacher education in India.
Under the proposed framework, the new commission will function through three separate councils responsible for regulation, accreditation, and the maintenance of academic standards across universities and higher education institutions in the country.
According to the Bill, the present challenges faced by higher educational institutions due to the multiplicity of regulators having non-harmonised regulatory approval protocols will be done away with.
The higher education commission, which will be headed by a chairperson appointed by the President of India, will cover all central universities and colleges under it, institutes of national importance functioning under the administrative purview of the Ministry of Education, including IITs, NITs, IISc, IISERs, IIMs, and IIITs.
At present, IITs and IIMs are not regulated by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Government to refer bill to JPC; Oppn slams it
The government has expressed its willingness to refer it to a joint committee after several members of the Lok Sabha expressed strong opposition to the Bill, stating that they were not given time to study its provisions.
Responding to the opposition, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said the government intends to refer the Bill to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) for detailed examination.
Congress Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari warned that the Bill could result in “excessive centralisation” of higher education. He argued that the proposed law violates the constitutional division of legislative powers between the Union and the states.
According to him, the Bill goes beyond setting academic standards and intrudes into areas such as administration, affiliation, and the establishment and closure of university campuses. These matters, he said, fall under Entry 25 of the Concurrent List and Entry 32 of the State List, which cover the incorporation and regulation of state universities.
Tewari further stated that the Bill suffers from “excessive delegation of legislative power” to the proposed commission. He pointed out that crucial aspects such as accreditation frameworks, degree-granting powers, penalties, institutional autonomy, and even the supersession of institutions are left to be decided through rules, regulations, and executive directions. He argued that this amounts to a violation of established constitutional principles governing delegated legislation.
Under the Bill, the regulatory council will have the power to impose heavy penalties on higher education institutions for violating provisions of the Act or related rules. Penalties range from ₹10 lakh to ₹75 lakh for repeated violations, while establishing an institution without approval from the commission or the state government could attract a fine of up to ₹2 crore.
Concerns were also raised by members from southern states over the Hindi nomenclature of the Bill. N.K. Premachandran, an MP from the Revolutionary Socialist Party representing Kollam in Kerala, said even the name of the Bill was difficult to pronounce.
He pointed out that under Article 348 of the Constitution, the text of any Bill introduced in Parliament must be in English unless Parliament decides otherwise.
DMK MP T.M. Selvaganapathy also criticised the government for naming laws and schemes only in Hindi. He said the Constitution clearly mandates that the nomenclature of a Bill should be in English so that citizens across the country can understand its intent.
Congress MP S. Jothimani from Tamil Nadu’s Karur constituency described the Bill as another attempt to impose Hindi and termed it “an attack on federalism.”
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