Government will soon be coming up with a draft vehicle scrapping policy, to scrap heavy vehicles that are more than 15 years old. The policy would provide benefit of Rs 4,000 crore to central government and the state governments will benefit to the tune of Rs 10,000 crore, offering a combined benefit of Rs 14,000 crore, also the automobile industry will see a growth of 22 per cent.
Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari said that he met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and accordingly the proposed Voluntary Vehicle Fleet Modernisation Programme (V-VMP), which aims to scrap heavy vehicles that are more than 15 years old in the first phase, was being finalised and would be formulated in such a fashion that those surrendering their old vehicles will get some financial benefits and also added that those buying new vehicles will get some concessions from the state and central governments. The manufacturers too will give some benefits as their sales will go up.
Gadkari had earlier said the policy may provide benefits of Rs 2-3 lakh for every heavy vehicle to be scrapped. Scrapping of these heavy vehicles will be done at industrial clusters like Kandla - to be set-up under the government’s ambitious Sagarmala project. Minister further added that the benefits of the policy include curbing pollution, as 65 per cent of the vehicular pollution is caused by heavy vehicles like trucks and buses and it will also provide additional net revenue of over Rs 21,000 crore on account of automobile sales, besides crude oil savings of Rs 7,700 crore due to improved fuel efficiency. As per the Ministry, the proposed policy has the potential to reduce vehicular emission by 25-30 per cent and save oil consumption by 3.2 billion litres a year. Once the policy is finalised, it is estimated to result in domestic steel scrap generation worth Rs 5,500 crore to substitute imported scrap and would create huge employment.
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