Karnataka Has Over 39 Lakh Cars Older Than 20 Years, Delhi 36 Lakh: Centre

New Delhi:

Delhi has greater than 36 lakh automobiles older than 20 years, the second one best within the nation after Karnataka, which has over 39 lakh such automobiles, the Centre stated on Friday.

Responding to a question within the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Setting Ashwini Choubey stated there are 2,14,25,295 automobiles older than 20 years within the nation.

He stated those figures exclude automobiles in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Lakshadweep as they’re “now not in centralised Vahan four portal”.

Whilst Karnataka has 39,48,120 automobiles older than 20 years, Delhi has 36,14,671, adopted by way of Uttar Pradesh with 26,20.946 such automobiles, as in keeping with the information shared by way of the minister in a written reaction.

Kerala recorded 20.67 lakh 20-year-old automobiles, Tamil Nadu has 15.99 lakh such automobiles and Punjab 15.32 lakh automobiles, he stated.

On being requested about air pollution led to by way of those automobiles, Mr Choubey stated no overview has been made in regards to the air pollution led to by way of those automobiles within the nation.

The collection of 20-year-old automobiles in Delhi suppose importance because the Excellent Court docket had dominated in 2018 that any registered diesel car greater than 10 years outdated, and any petrol car over 15 years outdated can’t function in NCR. Those regulations were laid down in more than a few orders issued by way of the NGT (2015) and the Excellent Court docket (2018).

On the other hand, previous this 12 months, the Centre had proposed a brand new draft vehicle-scrapping coverage, which can permit homeowners to make use of their outdated automobiles after a health check and on cost of a better rate.

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