Scrappage policy may put brakes on services of old private buses in Ernakulam
The Hindu
With around 100 of the total 600 city-service private buses expected to attain the age of 15, their ‘superannuation age’, by 2022, the fear is rife that there will be considerable depletion of their f
With around 100 of the total 600 city-service private buses expected to attain the age of 15, their ‘superannuation age’, by 2022, the fear is rife that there will be considerable depletion of their fleet in a year’s time.
The implementation of the National Automobile Scrappage Policy from April 2022, which hiked by eight times the fee to renew the fitness certificate of vehicles that are over 15 years old, will be a testing time for the bus sector in Ernakulam district and possibly the entire State, said stakeholders in the Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) and in the private bus sector.
They attributed this to considerable number of bus operators purchasing new buses from 2005 to 2007, in keeping with the economic and real estate boom that Kerala, and particularly Ernakulam district, witnessed during that period.