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Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

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Saturday, 27 March 2021

Nitinbhai - Vehicle Manufacturers cannot ignore your advice

 


 

 

Here are some estimates of the number of  old vehicles that would need to be scrapped :

UP has over 20% of India’s old vehicles   /  HR / 20 March 2021

Extract :

“In UP alone, there are more than 21 lakh such vehicles which is around 20% of the total 1 crore such vehicles identified in the entire country even as more than 50 lakh more such vehicles in UP will become eligible for the policy after five years,” a senior transport department official said.

The transport department’s latest report, accessed by HT, shows that there are more than 21.23 lakh non-transport (personal/private) and transport (commercial vehicles) that are older than 20 years and 15 years respectively.

Of them, around 19.20 lakh are personal/private vehicles alone. Commercial vehicles in this category constitute only a little more than 2.35 lakh.

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40 lakh two-wheelers, 11 lakh cars in Karnataka are over 15 years old   /  TOI  / 08 Feb 2021

Extract :

Around 63 lakh vehicles in Karnataka, including nearly 22 lakh in Bengaluru, are more than 15 years old, data with transport department reveals.

According to the records (till March 2020), the 63 lakh vehicles include 40.2 lakh two-wheelers, 11 lakh cars, 2.2 lakh trucks/lorries and 2.6 lakh autorickshaws. In Bengaluru alone, 12.5 lakh two-wheelers are over 15 years old, followed by cars (5.3 lakh) and autos (1.2 lakh). As per statistics, Karnataka has a total of 2.4 crore registered vehicles, including 85.6 lakh in the city(till May 2020).

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At 70 L K’taka has most old vehicles in India   /  Times Nation  /  27 March 2021

Extract :

Ø  Karnataka…………………………. 70.0  lakhs

Ø  Uttar Pradesh………………………56.5 lakhs

Ø  Delhi…………………………………….49.9 lakhs

Ø  Kerala………………………………….34.6 lakhs

Ø  Tamil Nadu………………………….33.4 lakhs

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Total………………………………… 244.4  lakhs ( 24.4 Million )

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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari shared the information with the Lok Sabha on Friday

Details of the aging vehicles, not provided in the Parliament , have been compiled from the digitized vehicle records from centralized “ Vahan-4 “

Karnataka additional commissioner of transport ( e-governance and environment ), Shivraj Patil said that one reason for more aged vehicles in Karnataka, is due to the duplication of database

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The above-mentioned statistics ( of old vehicles that must be scrapped by 2023 ), should be read in conjunction with :

Blessing in Disguise ? ………………………[ 21 March 2021 ]

 

Extract :

While announcing the Vehicle Scrappage Policy in Lok Sabha , a few days ago, the figures mentioned by Shri Gadkariji were :

Light Motor Vehicles

#   Older than 20 years…………………………………………. ……51  lakhs

#  Older than 15 years( but less than 20 years ).………34  lakhs 

     Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicles

#  Older than 15 years without any valid FITNESS certificate…17  lakhs

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TOTAL…………………………………………………………………………102 lakh [ 10.2 million ]

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Within a week of that announcement, the figure seems to have DOUBLED !


Quite likely, even this latest figure ( 24.4 million ) , may not be the last word on the subject !


If true, scrapping 24 million vehicles in next 24 months will mean, scrapping 1 million vehicles PER MONTH !

 

Dear Nitinbhai,


You have “ advised “ Vehicle Manufacturers that they give a 5 % DISCOUNT ( on the  sale price of a new vehicle ) to any buyer, who goes to the dealer with a “ SCRAP CERTIFICATE “


Now, vehicle manufacturers cannot afford to ignore your “ advice “ – which they would need to implement by April 2022


So , they have done ( or in the process of doing ) what any industrialist would do under such circumstances, viz :


Raise the sale price NOW ( or in the next few months ) by 10 % - 15 % - claiming that costs are rising rapidly !


That would enable them to give that 5 % DISCOUNT and claim to be “ Co-operating “ with the government by following your “ advice “ !


With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 28 March 2021

 

 

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