NEW DELHI: With Centre making it mandatory for states to promote scrapping of old and unfit vehicles, 21 states and UTs, including Bihar, MP, UP, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab and Kerala, have announced concessions in motor vehicle or
road tax
of up to 25% on buying a new private vehicle in lieu of scrapping old ones and up to 15% for commercial vehicles.
So far, around 70,000
old vehicles
have been voluntarily scrapped, though a large share of them are owned by central or state govt agencies. Delhi is the only state/UT where diesel and petrol vehicles that are over 10 and 15 years, respectively, get automatically deregistered and have to be scrapped.
Details available with TOI show that 17 out of 11 states and UTs have notified 15% road tax concession while registering commercial or transport vehicles after scrapping old ones.
In case of private vehicles, 12 states are giving 25% rebate on road tax. Haryana is offering 10% concession or lower of 50% of the scrap value, while Uttarakhand is providing 25% concession or Rs 50,000, whichever is lower. Karnataka is offering fixed rebate in road tax as per price of the new private vehicle - for instance, Rs 50,000 for vehicles costing over Rs 20 lakh. Puducherry is offering 25% concession or Rs 11,000, whichever is lower.
Road transport ministry officials said since govt pushed voluntary vehicle scrapping, 37 registered scrapping centres or RVSFs have been operationalised and now 52 such centres are functioning across 16 states and UTs. Similarly, 52 automated testing stations (ATS) for checking fitness of vehicles are functional across 11 states and UTs.
"There is special focus on increasing number of RVSFs and ATS so that people can access them easily," said a ministry official.
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