Following news appeared yesterday :
Highlight :
The proposed policy for scrapping 20-year
old commercial vehicles will go for another round of
consultations with stakeholders as per the PMO directions, Union Minister Nitin
Gadkari said today.
The proposal aims to pave the way for mandatory
scrapping of such vehicles from April
1, 2020.
He said that after "taking everyone's
views" it will be sent back to the PMO for approval, he said
Once the policy is approved, he said :
“ India could emerge as a hub for automobile
manufacturing as key raw material available from scrapping like steel, aluminium and plastic are bound to be
recycled, bringing down automobile prices by "20 to 30
per cent."
In May 2016, the government had floated a draft
Voluntary Vehicle Fleet Modernisation Programme (V-VMP) that proposed to take 28
million decade-old vehicles off the road.
Dear Shri Gadkariji,
I urge you to expedite the release of this policy in
view of the following :
# Old vehicles
( all BS IV ) do not meet current
emission standards and pollute the air
# They also
damage the roads and need heavy / frequent maintenance
# They cause
accidents due to failure of brakes etc
# Each old car
scrapped can yield approx. 0.9 tons of steel scrap
# Let us assume
that , out of those 28 million vehicles to be scrapped , some 20 million are
Cars . These can yield 18 million tons of
steel scrap
# Steel scrap
gets sold for Rs 25,000 per ton as against new CRCA sheets selling for Rs
51,000 per ton
# Using steel
scrap as input raw material may bring down the cost of production of making
new CRCA steel sheets and possibly, their
prices might drop from Rs 51,000 to Rs
40,000 per ton( 25% drop )
# To make 1 ton
of Steel , we need following inputs :
·
Iron
Ore…………….. 1,115 kg
·
Coal…………………….. 625
kg
·
Lime Stone…………… 53
kg
·
Energy…………………. 642
Kwh
·
Oil……………………….. 287
litre
Imagine how
much the country can save for 18 million tons of steel ?
On top of
that there will be enormous saving of foreign exchange by not having to import
that 6
/ 8 million tons of steel scrap that our Steel Industry currently imports !
I request you to refer to my following earlier emails
on how we should go about framing up our ,
VEHICLE
RE-CYCLE POLICY :
PIYUSH
PLAN ? ………………………………………… [ 27 March 2016 ]
Retiring Old
Vehicles - Gadkari Style ? ………. [ 30 May 2016 ]
Young or Old
? ………………………………………………[ 27 Aug 2016 ]
From OLD to NEW
? No , go NEWER ! ……….[ 22 Sept 2016 ]
Building Castles
in the Air ? ………………………..[ 12 March 2017 ]
Best out of a
Bad Bargain ? ………………………….[ 29 March 2017 ]
Car Grave-Yard
of World ? ……………………………[ 14 Feb 2018 ]
One door
closes ; Another opens ……………..[ 27 Feb 2018 ]
Mahindra Accelo
: Saluting a pioneer …………..[ 19 June 2018 ]
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