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Months aft the authorities hiked renewal charges for older vehicles, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has imposed different costlier measure- raising the fittingness trial interest for each centrifugal vehicles implicit 20 years old, successful a bid to discourage owners from keeping older, much polluting models connected the road.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), successful a latest notification issued connected November 11, said the higher interest slabs present statesman astatine 10 years for commercialized vehicles, alternatively of 15 years, bringing much vehicles nether the updated outgo brackets.
What are the age-based categories for conveyance fittingness tests?
MoRTH has created 3 wide property groups for fittingness testing:
1. Vehicles betwixt 10-15 years
2. Vehicles betwixt 15-20 years
3. Vehicles supra 20 years
What are the revised charges for assorted vehicles?
The fittingness trial interest for airy centrifugal vehicles (LMVs) older than 20 years has been accrued to ₹15,000 from ₹10,000.
The notification has made steep revisions to the fittingness trial interest for dense trucks and buses older than 20 years. They volition present person to wage ₹25,000 for the fittingness test, from ₹3,500 earlier.
Medium commercialized vehicles successful the aforesaid property radical volition present person to wage ₹20,000, and the fittingness trial of airy centrifugal vehicles supra 20 years volition outgo ₹15,000.
The fittingness trial interest for two-wheelers supra 20 years has besides been accrued to ₹2,000 from ₹600 earlier.
| Vehicle types | Age category | Old rates | New rates |
| Light centrifugal vehicles (LMVs) | Over 20 years | 10,000 | 15,000 |
| Heavy-duty vehicles | Over 20 years | 3,500 | 25,000 |
| Medium commercialized vehicles | Over 20 years | 1,800 | 20,000 |
| Two-wheelers | Over 20 years | 600 | 2,000 |
(Inputs from PTI)
