Car scrap dealers worried about new Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility in Bengaluru Premium
The Hindu
The Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility (RVSF) coming up in Bengaluru is expected to attract vehicle owners who want peace of mind after disposing their end-of-life vehicle and insist on an eco-friendly process to scrap their vehicle.
Car scrap dealers in Bengaluru are bracing for the impact of the Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility (RVSF), which is expected to change the face of a business that is a huge part of the unorganised sector.
The RVSF coming up in Bengaluru is the project of CERO, a joint venture of Mahindra Accelo and government-owned MSTC Limited. Once it’s operational, it is expected to attract vehicle owners who want to dispose of their end-of-life vehicle and an eco-friendly process to scrap it.
Now, end-of-life vehicles can be handed over to a scrap dealer in the unorganised sector. But it involves the risk of misuse of the vehicle. RVSFs are expected to eliminate this risk.
While the government has announced that its vehicles will be scrapped after 15 years, scrapping a personal vehicle is voluntary.
Personal vehicles can be used as long as they are fit to ply. But if, at any point, it fails a fitness test at a government-authorised Automated Testing Station, it’ll have to be scrapped at an RVSF.
The same applies to commercial vehicles. The only significant difference is that commercial vehicles have to clear a fitness test every year to renew their registration. Being under such intense scrutiny, they have to be fit to ply at all times or risk being scrapped. All such vehicles will have to be scrapped at RVSFs.
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