Renewal of registration for 15-yr old govt vehicles to stop from Apr 1, 2022
The authorities departments won’t be able to renew the registration of their vehicles older than 15 years from April 1, 2022, if a proposal on this regard issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is finalised. It has sought the stakeholders’ feedback to amend associated guidelines on this regard issuing a notification.
Once permitted, this can be relevant to all authorities vehicles – central or state governments, union territories, PSUs, municipal and autonomous our bodies, as per the notification.
“From April 1, 2022, government departments will not be able to renew the certificate of registration of their vehicles, after 15 years. This will apply to all government – central, state, UT, PSUs, municipal bodies & autonomous bodies,” the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways mentioned in a tweet.
The improvement comes shut on the heels of the voluntary car scrapping coverage introduced within the Union Budget on February 1 for 2021-22 which gives for health take a look at after 20 years for private vehicles whereas industrial vehicles would require it after the completion of 15 years.
Notification of the draft guidelines has been issued to this impact on March 12 by the ministry searching for feedback, objections and strategies from the stakeholders inside thirty days.
The certificates of registration shall not be renewed after the lapse of 15 years for authorities vehicles, it mentioned.
Presenting the Budget for 2021-22 in Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 had introduced car scrapping coverage.
Road, Transport, Highways and MSMEs Minister Nitin Gadkari had mentioned that originally one crore vehicles will go for scrapping and the coverage will lead to new investments of round Rs 10,000 crore and create as many as 50,000 jobs.
These old vehicles are estimated to trigger 10-12 occasions extra air pollution than the newest vehicles.
The authorities had earlier mentioned it plans to impose a inexperienced tax on old polluting vehicles quickly in a bid to defend the setting and curb air pollution whereas vehicles like sturdy hybrids, electrical vehicles and people working on alternate fuels like CNG, ethanol and LPG can be exempted.
The income collected by way of the inexperienced tax can be utilised for tackling air pollution.
Under the scheme, transport vehicles older than eight years could possibly be charged inexperienced tax on the time of renewal of health certificates on the fee of 10-25 per cent of street tax, as per inexperienced tax proposal despatched to states for consultations after cleared by the ministry.Â
(With PTI inputs)
