The Centre plans to complete registration of all beneficiaries under its PARIVARTAN scheme for replacing older commercial vehicles within a year, around half the two-year timeline approved by the Union Cabinet in June, as it seeks to reduce vehicular emissions from trucks and buses ahead of next winter, officials said on Friday.
Ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) secretary V Umashankar said the ministry was targeting 230,000 truck and bus registrations under the scheme within a year, with an interim target of 25,000 registrations by the end of October. “If this initiative runs well, the visible results will be there for everyone to see next winter,” Umashankar said, referring to the improvement seen after Delhi’s conversion and adoption of CNG between 1998 and 2002.
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PARIVARTAN scheme
PARIVARTAN, or Programme for Accelerated Renewal and Incentivization of Vehicle Assets for Reducing Transport Air Pollution and Network Emissions for Delhi-NCR, seeks to replace older commercial vehicles, including BS-IV and older trucks and buses, with BS-VI or electric vehicles.
