Only BS IV-compliant vehicles to be sold in India from April 2017

The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) issued a notification today stating that from October 1, 2015 only Bharat Stage IV (BS-IV) compliant four-wheelers will be sold and registered, in Jammu & Kashmir, barring Leh and Kargil, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, parts of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, and added that the government plans to implement the emission standard all over the country from April 1, 2017.

From October 1, BS IV norms will be applicable on new vehicles sold in the states of Jammu & Kashmir (except districts of Leh and Kargil), Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and districts of Hanumangarh and Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan and in the districts of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnaur, Jyotiba Phule Nagar, Rampur, Muradabad, Aligarh, Badaun, Bareilly, Mathura, Mahamayanagar, Etah, Agra, Firozabad, Etawah, Mainpuri, Pilibhit, Shamli, Sambhal, Farrukabad, Kannauj, Auriya and Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh.

BS-IV norms are already applicable in some tier-I cities at the moment including all metro cities.

From April 1, 2016, BS IV emission norms will be applicable in the states of Goa, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Odisha and the Union territories of Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, districts of Mumbai, Thane and Pune in Maharashtra and districts of Surat, Valsad, Dangs and Tapi in Gujarat.

BS IV grade fuel has already been made available in the NCR and the cities of Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad including Secunderabad, Kanpur, Pune, Surat, Agra, Lucknow and Sholapur from April 1, 2010. Twenty additional cities were added from October 2014 and 30 more cities from  April 1, 2015.

With this, only those newly manufactured four-wheeled vehicles, which are complaint with the BS-IV standards will be allowed to be registered and ply on roads with effect from the notified dates in the notified areas.

The media statement said these specifications will further reduce the emissions of Carbon Monoxide (CO), Hydrocarbons (HC), Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) and Sulphur (SOx) which are lesser in BS-IV fuel as compared to BS III fuel.