Delhi govt to soon de-register 43 lakh petrol vehicles older than 15 years in city

The Delhi government has de-registered around 1 lakh diesel vehicles older than 10 years on January 1. Owners of these vehicles will now have to apply for no-objection certificates for re-registration in other states, scrap their vehicles in authorised scrapyards, or convert them into e-vehicles.

Officials in the transport department also warned owners of petrol vehicles older than 15 years and said these will also be de-registered in the coming days. There are around 43 lakh overage petrol vehicles, including 11 lakh cars and 32 lakh two-wheelers, said an official.

According to officials, the transport department has de-registered a total of 1,01,247 diesel vehicles that completed 10 years on Saturday. Of the total, 87,000 are cars. The rest are goods carriers, buses, commercial tractors that were registered between 2006 to 2011.