New Delhi: As part of India’s commitment towards cleaner fuel, 17 cities have switched to Bharat Stage 4 (BS IV) emission norms, with three more cities to be added on 1 March.
The cities that will be covered by 1 March are Ankaleshwar (Gujarat), Hissar (Haryana) and Bharatpur (Rajasthan). A total of 50 cities will be covered by 2015. BS IV petrol and diesel have lower sulphur content, a major air pollutant, compared with BS III norms.
“There is a general consensus among the stakeholders that it is better to extend these emission norms to other cities at the earliest. Petroleum ministry has said that the oil companies will be able to supply BS IV-compliant fuel to top 50 cities by 2015,” said a government official, requesting anonymity.
According to the national auto fuel policy, in 2010, the BS IV norms were implemented in 13 cities—the national capital region, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Surat, Kanpur, Agra, Solapur and Lucknow, while BS III norms were…………… continues on Livemint
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Handling auto waste is emerging as a big issue and the automotive industry should create a ‘disposal chain’, similar to supply chain, so that vehicles that ultimately turn into scrap bundles can be effectively disposed of, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, R. Chidambaram, said on Monday.
Delivering the inaugural address at the fourth edition of ‘Automotive R&D trends 2015: automotive technology – mobility as a system’, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), he said that the issue could not be ignored any longer.
The latest generation vehicles could be described as computer on wheels as they were coming out with more embedded systems and hence their disposal required greater attention as was being done in advanced countries.
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