How to scrap your end-of-life car at Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility in Karnataka Premium

Government of India’s vehicle scrappage policy lays down the norms for setting up a Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility, or RVSF, where your vehicle will be scrapped as per government norms and in an eco-friendly process. One RVSF is coming up in Bengaluru.

The government of India introduced the vehicle scrapping policy in 2021 to phase out old vehicles, as they cause pollution and are considered unfit to ply. Each new model is expected to be more operationally efficient and less polluting than older models. Hence, phasing out older vehicles would, in a way, apply the brakes on the increase in vehicular pollution.

Commercial vehicles undergo a fitness test every year when their registration has to be renewed. If a vehicle fails the test, it will have to be scrapped. Private vehicles have to go for re-registration when they are 15 years old, for which they have to take a fitness test at an RTO.

Going forward, you can do this fitness test at an authorised Automated Testing Station that operates under the guidelines of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. If your personal vehicle clears the fitness test, you can use it for another five years after re-registering at the RTO by paying the relevant tax. Registration has to be renewed every five years.

If your vehicle fails the fitness test, it will have to be scrapped. As of now, you would go to one of the vehicle scrap dealers in your city. The dealer would purchase the vehicle at a price that would be determined by two factors: one, the weight of the metal, and two, the quality of the parts.

For calculating the portion of price accounted by the metal, the scrap dealer would divide the weight of the vehicle by two (it would vary with each scrap dealer and city or State) to account for the non-ferrous material. So, if your car weighs 1,000 kg, the scrap dealer would pay the prevailing rate for 500 kg of iron scrap.

The price assigned to the quality of usable parts would be at the discretion of the scrap dealer.

The price would vary with each model. For example, the parts of the popular Swift model would yield less than that of the Ford Ikon. The reason is that the Ikon is no longer available. An Ikon owner would be ready to pay a premium for a replacement part. In comparison, parts of a Swift are relatively more easily available.