Haryana set to scrap 10-year-old diesel vehicles

The Haryana government Thursday approved a draft policy for scrapping old petrol and diesel-run vehicles, which will also offer incentives, including a rebate on registration fee, of a new vehicle. The policy, to be effective for five years, will be in sync with the voluntary vehicle fleet modernization programme of the Government of India to encourage the scrapping of 10-year-old diesel vehicles and 15-year-old petrol vehicles. The decision was taken in a state Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

“Under the policy, the vehicles which have completed the critical age of 10 and 15 years in case of diesel and petrol variants, respectively shall be scrapped. An incentive-based system will be introduced to facilitate phasing out the unfit vehicles.