In the last 10 years, nearly 24,000 owners sold their overage vehicles outside Delhi. Here’s why

Currently, the metropolis has astir 1.2 lakh to 1.5 lakh overage oregon end-of-life (ELV) vehicles, said officials.

The Transport Department started de-registering ELVs successful January 2022 successful compliance with directions of the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal; arsenic of November 13, it has de-registered astir 60 lakh vehicles.

However, elder officials successful the Transport Department said the numbers look large arsenic galore of these vehicles are lone connected paper. “When we started digitising records, details of each registered vehicles were uploaded onto the dashboard… Many of these vehicles were precise aged and were either sold oregon scrapped. To find retired however galore vehicles are plying connected metropolis roads, the section conducted a survey done IIT-Delhi past twelvemonth and recovered retired that determination are astir lone 2 lakh ELVs — idiosyncratic cars, cabs and others — successful the city,” said an official.

In 2023, the Delhi authorities launched an enforcement thrust against each ELVs and impounded astir 15,000 vehicles. The thrust was stopped aft respective owners filed petitions successful the court. To combat aerial contamination up of winter, the section re-launched the thrust connected October 11 this twelvemonth and has impounded implicit 4,000 vehicles.

Officials said astir 25% of radical whose vehicles person been impounded successful the ongoing enforcement thrust person been issued a provisional merchandise bid done the department’s recently launched online portal.

“Provisional merchandise orders person been issued for astir 20-25% vehicles; astir sought NOCs. This bid is fixed to first-time offenders connected an undertaking connected stamp insubstantial that they volition not parkland their vehicles oregon thrust them successful the city. The process is akin for an NoC. If immoderate proprietor wants to merchantability their conveyance successful different states, they volition person to taxable an undertaking and wage a fine,” said a elder official.

The Scrapping Cell issues a merchandise licence oregon an NOC lone if it finds that the exertion and the information of the conveyance are satisfactory.

Officials offered different crushed — resale worth being higher than scrap value. “The wealth 1 gets from scrapping a conveyance is precise little. For instance, radical walk lakhs to bargain an costly car similar a Mercedes but the scrap worth of specified a car is lone astir Rs 50,000 to Rs 70,000…,” said an official.

For others, it could beryllium axenic sentimental worth that makes them not privation to scrap their vehicle, added officials.