Delhi has over one crore registered vehicles, of which about 37 lakhs are older than 15 years. According to newly drafted Delhi government rules that aim to make the capital the first Indian city with an “end of vehicle life” policy, all vehicles that are more than 15 years old will be seized and sent to scrap dealers for dismantling.
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The rules are likely to be notified by the end of this year. These rules have been framed to implement a 2014 order by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) which states that vehicles older than 15 years should not be allowed to ply on Delhi’s roads and should not be parked in public spaces. According to few senior officers, if the draft rules are approved, the impounding of vehicles will start early next year.
For the last four years, the traffic police and the transport department have been expressing their inability to seize old vehicles despite the NGT order because of lack of space to park and the lack of a proper mechanism to dismantle these vehicles.
Under the ‘Delhi scrapping of vehicles rules, 2018’, all impounded vehicles, including two-wheelers, will be sent directly to empaneled scrap dealers for dismantling and owners will be paid a scrapping charge. The enforcing agencies will be the Delhi traffic police, the municipal corporations and the transport department.
The transport department will begin issuing licenses to scrap dealers who have scrapyards of at least 1,000 square yards in non-residential areas in Delhi-NCR and are certified by the Delhi pollution control committee. The draft rules allow owners to voluntarily give away old cars and two-wheelers to the dealers against an assured amount.
To make sure that the scrapping is done in a non-hazardous and environment friendly way, the rules have also made it mandatory for licensed scrap dealers to have CCTV cameras installed in their yards.
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