The Centre has offered the cash-strapped Rs 150 crore that can be spent in the next two months if it scraps all the government vehicles that are more than 15 years old.
It has been said that the scrapping old government vehicles is part of the larger scheme of theministry of road transportand highways (MoRTH) to reduce old, unfit and polluting vehicles in the country. The Centre has earmarked Rs 2,000 crore as incentives to the states for scrapping the old government vehicles under the scheme. The states have been placed under four categories with respect to the vehicle Population and density, in whichKeralafalls in the category-two, which would be offered Rs 150 crore each.
The state has been asked to come up with an order specifying the number of government vehicles that it would scrap, scrap them at the registered vehicle scrapping facility (RVSF), and share the proof of scrapping the vehicles with the MoRTH. After examining the state’s achievement, the MoRTH would then recommend the ministry of finance to release the incentive for the state.