International safety standards for new vehicles
Posted on: 28/Apr/2016 5:10:30 PM
Government has already introduced several safety standards, which are very similar to international regulation. All such requirements are notified under CMVR from time to time.
Government has also introduced Safety Rating Scheme (Bharat New Car Safety Assessment Program- BNVSAP) on similar lines of NCAP. BNVSAP will be implemented along with the above mandatory standards.
The government under the NATRiP initiative has taken up project to setup state of art testing centres at Indore (NATRAX), Pune (ARAI), Manesar (iCAT), and Chennai (GARC). Of these centres, Crash Test Centre at ARAI, Pune is already operational and facility at ICAT, Manesar is in advance stage of completion. The centre at Chennai (GARC) is expected to be ready by next year and the centre at Indore, thereafter.
Cars being manufactured from the dates mentioned in the above table need to have compliance at the manufacturing stage. In addition, standards for Seat Belts and their Anchorages, Child Seats, Seats and their Anchorages are already mandated step by step since 2010.
Regarding Emission, Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways has uploaded on their website draft notification for mandating Mass emission standards Bharat Stage V (BS V) for category M & Category N vehicles, manufactured on or after 1st April 2019 for new models and on or after 1st April 2020 for existing models and Mass emission standards Bharat Stage VI (BS VI) for M & N category vehicles manufactured on or after 1st April, 2021 for new models and on or after 1st April 2022 for existing models.
This information was given by Minister of State in the Ministry Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Shri G.M. Siddeshwara in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
