The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has issued a draft notification to disallow the re-registration of previous authorities vehicles. This would make authorities vehicles ineligible for registration renewal after 15 years. The new guidelines are likely to come into impact from April 1, 2022.
According to the proposal, all vehicles belonging to the Central and State governments, Union Territories, native authorities establishments, PSUs, STUs, and different autonomous our bodies with the Central and State governments, have been put underneath the ambit of this new proposed modification to the Central Motor Vehicle Rules (1989).
The Ministry has revealed draft guidelines and can search options from stakeholders for 30 days earlier than notifying them.
The transfer is seen to be according to the federal government’s lately introduced Scrappage Policy, which goals to take previous and better polluting vehicles off the road for environmental safety.
While the MoRTH would waive off registration fees, it could additionally urge states to give a rebate on road tax and advocate OEMs to give a reduction of up to 5 % to prospects who’ve scrapped their previous automobile.
There are greater than 10 million previous and polluting vehicles in India and this transfer is anticipated to do away with previous police vans, postal vans, state transport buses, and ambulances to identify a couple of.Â
