PM Modi Launches Vehicle Scrappage Policy, Invites Start-Ups To Join Programme

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched vehicle scrappage policy and said that the policy is a significant milestone in India's development journey. 

PM Narendra Modi

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched vehicle scrappage policy and said that the policy is a significant milestone in India's development journey. While addressing the Investor Summit in Gujarat on Friday morning, PM Modi invited youth and start-ups to join this programme. 

"We're about to enter 75th year of Independence. The next 25 years are very important for the country, from this point onward. In these 25 years, changes are going to take place in our way of working, in our daily lives, in our businesses," PM Modi said.

Emphasising on the need to protect the environment, PM Modi said that the manner in which technology is changing, be it our lifestyle or our economy - there will be a lot of changes in both of them. Amid these changes, it is important to protect our environment, our land, our resources, our raw material.

He stressed on wise use of natural resources. We can work on technology and innovation in the future but the natural resources we get from mother earth are not in our hands. So, on one hand, India is looking for new possibilities through Deep Ocean Mission & on the other hand, it is also encouraging Circular Economy, said PM Modi. 

The effort is to make development a sustainable one, an environment-friendly one. We are experiencing the challenges of climate change. So, in the interest of its citizens, India has to take major steps, the Prime Minister added. 

The Vehicle Scrapping Policy is to create an eco-system for phasing out unfit and polluting vehicles in an environmentally friendly and safe manner. The purpose of this policy is to install scraping infrastructure in the form of automated test stations and registered vehicle scrapping facilities across the country.