Scrap your diesel vehicle after 10 years, Check your RC today

If you were of the view that the validity of the registration certificate of your diesel vehicle is 15 years and you could run your car for 15 years, you are actually wrong. The transport department of the Delhi government has now advised people not to ply 15-year-old petrol vehicles and 10-year-old diesel vehicles and get them scrapped at authorised centres.

So this means, even if your RC has validity of 15 years on your diesel vehicle and your car has passed all sort of fitness test, you still won’t be able to ply it in Delhi and NCR that includes Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and other cities.

In a public notice, the department clarified that although registration certificates of all types of vehicles are valid for 15 years, a diesel vehicle cannot ply beyond 10 years in Delhi.

No-objection certificates for vehicles aged 10 to 15 years can be obtained so that they can be registered in states where it is permissible.

The Delhi transport department notice also cited a Supreme Court order for impounding end-of-life diesel and petrol vehicles.

The Union government in its voluntary vehicle scrapping policy has allowed plying of old vehicles if they pass fitness test. The policy provides for fitness test after 20 years for personal vehicles while commercial vehicles require it after the completion of 15 years. However, in Delhi and NCR, the diesel vehicles cannot ply if they are 10 years old.