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Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) and Japan Automotive Recyclers Alliance (JARA) jointly organized the 11th Asian Automotive Environmental Forum (AAEF) in India to converse the pathway for starting scrappage infrastructure for managing old vehicles in India. This was the first time of arrangement AAEF in New Delhi, India and it was referred as 'Automotive Recycling in India: Pathway to The Future-Towards Sustainable Society.' 150 delegates have joined this conference from countries like Japan, USA, China, India etc.

The participants, who attended the conference mainly focused on how to reduce dependency on single technology and concentrated on different forms of automotive recycling which are used worldwide to undertake growing need for recycling vehicles that are more than 15 years old and are operating in India. The speakers also recommended the government to design a policy roadmap to ensure that issues related to vehicle recycling in India are begun. Giving stress on growing environmental feasibility, social acceptability and economic capability aspects, N S Mohan Ram, Advisor, TVS Motors & Chairman, SIAM Recycling Group said, "We are the fastest growing economy in the world and have a huge consumer base and demand for mobility, both for personal and public use. However, due to lack of ELV recycling procedures and infrastructure, makes it a big mismatch, as we are one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of vehicles."

According to Sujeet Samaddar, Senior Consultant, Niti Aayog, the ground situation on recycling vehicles is not good in India and needs instant redressal. He argued that the focus on automotive recycling industry should grow at the same speed as the Indian Automobile Industry. He also said, "Automobile Recycling will not only ensure a strong economic growth but also create a large social impact and offer immense opportunity for rationally putting in effective interventions for recycling End-of-Life (old) Vehicle in India".

Rashmi Urdhwareshe, Director, ARAI told about Indian Government's vehicle scrappage policy that, it is expected soon and will have fleet modernization schemes and aim at encouraging voluntary scraping of old vehicles.

India is still on the edge of planning a scrappage policy which initially will be only restricted to 20 years old commercial vehicles. These will get an incentive of 15 percent of their purchase cost. The proposal was given to the GST council in May 2018 and is waiting for approval. The proposed policy intends at taking 20 years and older multi-axle vehicles off the road in a bid to reduce pollution. The policy is likely to be executed simultaneously with the BSVI norms in April 2020.