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Early Times Report
Jammu, June 26: Regional Transport Officers (RTOs) across Jammu and Kashmir are reportedly refusing to re-register the BS-III engine vehicles with outside registration.
Owners of vehicles with BS-III engines informed Early Times that though the Transport Department has made it compulsory for the vehicle owners to re-register their vehicles, with outside J&K registration numbers, “the RTOs are not re-registering the same,” they said.
“We have four motorcycles with registration numbers of Punjab, while all of them are BS-III engines. Facing threat of seizing of motorcycles by the Traffic Police or law enforcement agencies, we want to re-register all the motorcycles but RTO refuse to do the same”, Sudershan Sharma said, adding, “If Transport Department continues to refuse re-registering the BS-III engine vehicles, where will the owners go.”
Pertinently, first BS-III rule (concerning BS-III engines) was introduced by the government in the year 2005 and by 2010 the nationwide implementation of BS-III vehicles was completed while the BS-IV for 13 metro cities was introduced in April 2010 and the nationwide implementation is now completed with Supreme Court banning the sale of all BS-III vehicles starting April, 1, 2017.
Another owner said, “There is no concrete policy for the BS-III engine vehicles. I have a Swift Dzire car with a Punjab registration number, purchased in 2011. The vehicle still has around 5 years of life but without re-registration, we are not able to utilize the same as we are facing a seizure threat,” the owner said, adding that thousands of people in J&K own BS-III engine vehicles purchased from other states but now they are facing an uncertain future.
An official of the Transport Department informed that as per latest instructions, they have not re-registered the BS-III engine vehicles. “Only the government employees, who had been serving in other states and had purchased vehicles, have been allowed to transfer and get their vehicles (even BS-III engines) re-registered but not other vehicles”, the official said, adding that so far the rules have been silent about BS-III vehicles and the government should clarify the same. |
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