15-Year-Old Vehicles Will Be Scrapped From Roads: Gadkari

15-Year-Old Vehicles Will Be Scrapped From Roads: The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, has announced that all vehicles belonging to the Indian government that have completed 15 years will be scrapped.

A policy to this effect has been sent to states, and Mr. Gadkari has urged them to implement it as soon as possible. The move is aimed at reducing pollution and ensuring road safety.

It is estimated that scrapping 15-year-old vehicles will remove around 1.5 million such vehicles from Indian roads. This is a welcome move by the government, and we hope that it will lead to improved road safety and reduced pollution levels in our country.

“Yesterday, I signed a file under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that all the vehicles of the Indian government which have completed 15 years will be scrapped. I have sent this policy of the Indian government to all the states. They should adopt this policy at the state level,” he said.

“We require 80 lakh tonnes of bio-bitumen in the country and mostly in the roadways department. Around 50 lakh tonnes of bitumen is manufactured in the country and we import about 25 lakh tonnes of it,” he said.

“I am happy that when such projects start, our country will no longer need to import bitumen. Our roads in villages, districts, states and national highways would be made of bitumen using rice straw produced by farmers,” he said.

Gadkari also talked about one more project by Indian Oil in Assam where bioethanol will be produced. “Bamboos will be cultivated on wastelands, from which bioethanol will be produced. Our farmers will not only remain food providers, but they will be energy providers as well,” Gadkari said.