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The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is mounting up southbound India’s largest registered conveyance scrapping installation (RVSF) astatine Kandanakam adjacent Edappal successful Malappuram territory successful concern with the South India Metal Corporation (SIMCO).
Transport Minister K.B. Ganesh Kumar laid the instauration chromatic for the KSRTC-SIMCO task connected Friday (February 20, 2026), describing it arsenic a milestone successful Kerala’s conveyance recycling sector.
The Edappal RVSF volition cater to the districts of Palakkad, Malappuram, Thrissur, Ernakulam, and Idukki. Similar centres are planned for bluish and confederate Kerala successful collaboration with Steel Industries Kerala Ltd (SILK).
Mr. Ganesh Kumar said the task would assistance curb amerciable and environmentally harmful conveyance scrapping practices successful the State. Once operational, the Edappal installation volition guarantee that conveyance recycling successful cardinal Kerala is carried retired scientifically and with afloat support from Central and State authorities departments, helium added.
The ₹30-crore centre is being constructed connected 3 acres of onshore adjacent to the KSRTC determination store astatine Edappal. It volition person the capableness to scrap up to 100 metric tonnes of vehicles per time utilizing technological methods. The task is expected to beryllium completed wrong 8 months and is projected to make an yearly turnover of astir ₹300 crore.
SIMCO manager Binu Krishnan said the Edappal RVSF would beryllium the largest of its benignant successful southbound India, adding that authorised postulation centres would soon beryllium opened crossed cardinal Kerala.
SIMCO directors Sandeep Krishnan and Fazil Habib said conveyance owners scrapping their vehicles done RVSF centres would person a just and transparent marketplace terms and go eligible for taxation concessions and different Central authorities benefits erstwhile purchasing a caller conveyance nether the Certificate of Deposit (CoD) system.
