The Delhi government has started the exercise of sending old vehicles directly to the scrapyard. The aim is to motivate vehicle owners to send old vehicles to the scrapyard.
Transport department officials said that under this new initiative, if over-aged vehicles are found plying on the city roads or parked in public places, they will be seized and sent directly to the scrapping yard ”
A total of 50 vehicles, including diesel vehicles older than ten years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years, were seized from the Civil Lines area on Wednesday by ten teams of the enforcement wing of the transport department and sent to the registered vehicle scrapping centre, an official said. RVSF) was handed over.
Vehicle owners who want to use 10 year old diesel vehicles and 15 year old petrol vehicles in the National Capital Territory of Delhi will have the option to convert these vehicles to electric vehicles. In 2018, the Supreme Court banned 10-year-old diesel vehicles and 15-year-old petrol vehicles from plying in Delhi. The court had said that vehicles violating this order would be confiscated.
