NEW DELHI: Sale of four-wheelers not meeting Bharat Stage (BS)-IV emission norms will be barred in India from April 2017, with the government deciding to bring the entire country under the ambit of the tighter pollution control standard.
"The sale and registration of vehicles not meeting the new emission norms won't be allowed in the country from April 2017 and only Bharat Stage compliant four-wheeler vehicles will be manufactured," said a transport ministry spokesperson.
BS-IV is already mandatory in some major cities, including Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. For the rest of the country, the government has prepared a plan to implement the new norms in two phases.
As per the roadmap, BS-IV emission norms will be mandatory from October in Jammu and Kashmir except Leh and Kargil districts, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhandand some districts of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
In the second phase, the norms will come into force from April 2016 in Odisha, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Daman and Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, and some districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat.
"From April 1, 2017, the mass emission standards for Bharat Stage IV shall come into force all over the country," the road transport & highways ministry said in a statement. "With this, only those newlymanufactured fourwheeler vehicles, which are compliant with the BS-IV standards, will be allowed to register and move on roads with effect from the notified dates in the notified areas."
The new norms will reduce emissions of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbon (HC), oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and sulphur (SOx), which are much less in BS-IV fuel compared to BS-III fuel.
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