Delhi transport dept: Applications pending, impounded old vehicles not to be dismantled until November 29

An bid issued by the compartment connected Monday stated: “All registered scrapping agencies associated with the Transport department… for the enforcement drive… are directed not to commencement scrapping enactment of impounded vehicles up to November 29… successful respect of applicants whose applications are inactive pending with the department.” The section has besides directed the Scrapping Cell to stock the database of pending applications with the RVSFs.

While Principal Secretary-cum-Commissioner (Transport) Prashant Goyal did not reply to queries, Special Commissioner (Transport) Sachin Shinde said, “The applications for merchandise of ELVs request to beryllium decided arsenic per modular operating procedure.”

According to the guidelines regarding handling of ELVs, a conveyance proprietor has to taxable an exertion seeking provisional merchandise of his conveyance wrong 3 weeks of it being impounded. The transport section has to determine whether to merchandise the conveyance wrong a week of receiving the application.

If the section allows the application, it volition contented a merchandise bid aft taking an undertaking from the proprietor that the conveyance volition not beryllium plied oregon parked successful a nationalist spot and that it volition beryllium parked successful backstage parking. If the proprietor does not assertion his conveyance 3 weeks aft its merchandise bid is issued, the RVSFs tin scrap it.
The guidelines – issued successful February — besides authorities that the section has to make an online portal to facilitate the process betwixt enforcement agencies, RVSFs and conveyance owners.

However, the enforcement thrust was launched connected October 11, earlier the portal was developed. The portal went unrecorded connected October 21, allowing lone owners to taxable applications seeking merchandise of vehicles.

“The section had to make the portal to facilitate the process… but we person nary entree to it. It is not afloat developed… As per guidelines, the scrapping agencies tin scrap vehicles if not claimed successful 3 weeks. But however are we expected to cognize which conveyance has been released and which has not,” asked Vikram Bakshi, Director of Pineview Technology Limited, a RVSF registered with the department.

He added, “Now, the section has stopped america from scrapping vehicles. Keeping vehicles successful a pit besides creates contamination and is simply a discarded of our resources…This is not lone a concern nonaccomplishment for america but conveyance owners besides person to pay… custody charge/parking fees till their conveyance is parked successful our unit. The charges treble aft 7 days of a conveyance being impounded.”

Besides parking charges, the proprietor besides has to wage a punishment of Rs 10,000 for a car and Rs 5,000 for a two-wheeler to get it is released. “…the portal is new, truthful determination is immense pendency,” a elder section authoritative said.

Meanwhile, the RVSFs are readying to spell connected a onslaught from Monday implicit the bid and different issues. So far, 3,000 overaged vehicles person been impounded successful the enforcement drive, which is inactive continuing. Further, the section has received astir 485 applications from owners whose vehicles person been impounded successful the drive. Release orders person been issued for implicit 100 vehicles, said officials.