PM Modi launches automobile scrappage coverage, urges youth, start-ups to affix

Aug 13, 2021
PM Modi launches automobile scrappage coverage, urges youth, start-ups to affix

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched automobile scrappage coverage and mentioned that the coverage is a big milestone in India’s improvement journey. He urged youth and start-ups to affix the program.
“The launch of Car Scrappage Coverage immediately is a big milestone in India’s improvement journey. The Investor Summit in Gujarat for organizing automobile scrapping infrastructure opens a brand new vary of potentialities. I’d request our youth and start-ups to affix this program,” tweeted PM Modi.

He additionally mentioned that automobile scrapping will assist to part out unfit and polluting autos in an environment-friendly method.
“Car scrapping will assist part out unfit and polluting autos in a surroundings pleasant method. Our intention is to create a viable #circulareconomy and convey worth for all stakeholders whereas being environmentally accountable,” he added.

The Car Scrapping Coverage is geared toward creating an eco-system for phasing out unfit and polluting autos in an environmentally pleasant and protected method. The coverage intends to create scrapping infrastructure within the type of Automated Testing Stations and Registered Car Scrapping Services throughout the nation.
The Traders Summit is being organized to ask to fund for organizing automobile scrapping infrastructure beneath the Voluntary Car-Fleet Modernisation Program or the Car Scrapping Coverage, mentioned Prime Minister’s Workplace (PMO) in a press release.


The summit is being organized by the ministry of highway transport and highways and the federal government of Gujarat.
Through the launch, Union minister Nitin Gadkari talked about that around 1 crore autos are there with no legitimate health. He additionally mentioned that the coverage relies on health and never the age of autos.
The Prime Minister acknowledged that the scrappage coverage will assist in modernizing the automobile fleet and can guarantee scientific disposal of previous polluting autos.
The Car Scrapping Coverage is a transfer to generate wealth from waste, PM Modi added.