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Finance Ministry approves much-awaited policy to scrap over 15 years old vehicles

28 Feb 2018 Evaluate

The finance ministry has given its nod to the much-awaited policy for scrapping vehicles that are older than 15-years. The document will now go to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council for fixing concessions by the states and the Centre. The development comes after Road, Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has affirmed that the aim of bringing this policy is to curb the menace of rising vehicular pollution in India. He also said that the policy was needed to curb vehicular pollution as well as given the annual 22 percent growth rate of the automobile industry that will require an additional highway lane every third year, costing Rs 800 billion.

Gadkari has said that India has the potential to become a global hub for automobile industry once this proposal is implemented because the prices will become cheaper as scrap collected from these vehicles will be used for the production of auto parts among other things. Earlier, he had sent a concept note on Voluntary Vehicle Fleet Modernisation Programme (V-VMP) to the Committee of Secretaries. This note talked about the creation of an ecosystem, wherein, voluntary scrapping and replacement of old polluting vehicles was proposed. The policy has proposed to push 28 million decade-old vehicles off the road.

The transport minister had earlier said that the Prime Minister is very keen on the proposal and once it is implemented, pollution would be checked considerably as 65 percent of the pollution is caused by heavy vehicles more than 15 years old. As per an earlier proposal, a relief of about Rs 0.5 million was to be provided to people who purchase new commercial vehicle of about Rs 1.5 million, if they surrender their over 15-year old commercial vehicles. Gadkari has said that once the proposal is accepted it is bound to result in Rs 100 billion boost in tax revenue as the automobile sector will benefit from it.

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