Proposal to ban 15 year old vehicles have come a number of times. Very recently Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) has asked the government to ban these old vehicles as they cause pollution. And may be that if this ban is imposed the demand for vehicles go up helping these manufacturers.
Even if a ban is put into force, are we ready for it?
Should age be the only factor to ban vehicles from the road. May be we have vehicles that are not 15 years old but their emission level is very high. Shouldn't these vehicles be banned? On the other hand there might be vehicles which are older than 15 years but still are very well maintained or may be they are not driven much, then why ban these vehicles.
Before making a law to ban old vehicles may be a look into the above mentioned issues be taken into consideration.
Another issue is that there must be proper and concrete arrangement for disposing of these junked vehicles. If this is not done we will have piles of banned vehicles lying here and there. Do we have such specialised junk yards which can tear these vehicles apart and recycle the raw material - apart from the iron, there is rubber, plastic, glass, batteries, electronic items - many very harmful to the environment if not disposed off properly.
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