Supreme court has banned the sales of vehicles with Bharat Stage III emission standards from 1st April 2017. No new registration will be processed by Regional Transport Authority (RTO) for BS III vehicles and also no vehicle manufacturers are allowed to do sales from 1st of April.

Many manufacturing companies approached Supreme Court to extend the date as well as to proceed the registration process after 1st of April but not the production from 1st April and also they have pointed as the same process allowed by Indian government when there were new technologies introduced in 2005 and 2010.

As per the SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers) report, the companies had a stock of 8,24,275 BS III compliant vehicles which included 96,724 commercial vehicles, 6,71,308 two wheelers, 40,048 three wheelers and 16,198 cars. Though, SC order by Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta states that taking measures in controlling the pollution and taking care of public health is more important than commercial interests.

The Supreme Court has considered the Bhure Lal-headed Environment Protection Control Authority’s report which explains that compare to BS III vehicles, BS IV vehicles emit 80% lower particulate emissions which result in a huge difference in terms of pollution control.

Source: NDTV