Ghaziabad: The regional transport office (RTO) will set up more registered vehicle scrapping facilities in Noida, Ghaziabad, Hapur and Bulandshahr, the four districts under its jurisdiction, to phase out more than five lakh overaged vehicles in the region.
The state currently has 10 vehicle scrapping centres, two each in Gautam Budh Nagar and Bulandshahr, and one each in Ghaziabad, Agra, Amroha, Rampur, Baghpat and Muzaffarnagar.
“The state government has so far received five proposals – two for Bulandshahr and one each for Saharanpur, Baghpat and Auraria – for setting up scrapping facilities. The Ghaziabad RTO is also seeking applications to set up more such centres in Noida and Ghaziabad,” Arun Kumar, the regional transport officer of Ghaziabad, said.
The move, he said, aims at better implementation of a 2015 National Green Tribunal order to deregister end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) – petrol vehicles that are over 15 years old and diesel vehicles more than 10 years old — in Delhi-NCR.
There are a total of 1,17,000 diesel and 4,54,000 petrol vehicles in the jurisdiction of RTO Ghaziabad. Of these, 1,54,379 are end-of-life vehicles – 1.21 lakh petrol vehicles and the rest diesel-run ones — are in Noida. Since 2015, 3,500 ELVs have been seized in GB Nagar, while the Ghaziabad transport department took around 4,000 such vehicles off road.
“Licence for scraping centres is issued in four categories: L-category meant for scraping of two- and three-wheelers; M-category for four-wheelers; N-category for heavy vehicles; and ‘others’ for all other kinds of vehicles,” said Kumar. The existing vehicle scrapping centres in Noida and Ghaziabad are certified to scrap vehicles of all four categories.
Applications for setting up new centres have to be filled out at the state transport’s official portal . A minimum of one-acre land is required for setting up a scrapping facility for L-category vehicles and two-acre for all others.
According to transport department officials, a vehicle can be scrapped with the consent of its owner. “An old vehicle that is seized becomes sub-judice, so it has to be parked at the nearest police station or Sector 62’s D Park. Space for parking these vehicles sometimes is difficult to find,” a Noida transport department official said. To deal with the issue, the government is planning to set up a dump yard along the Ghaziabad-Bulandshahr industrial road.
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