Shifting to BS-6 norms by 2020 will pose many challenges for India. Identify those challenges and suggest better alternatives to overcome it. (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
Challenges in shfting to BS-6 norms
· Incease in manufacturing costs due to change in design of the engine.
· Exisitng vehicles those run on diesels will not be a reliable mode of transport.
· Manufacturers, especially those who have set up large diesel engine capacity. They will have to compensate for fall in domestic demand by pushing exports.
· Predominantly diesel car manufacturers will have to change their plan and their profit gets impacted heavily.
· The Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE ) norms, that came into force from April 2017, mandates that average corporate CO2 emission be less than 130 gm per km till 2022 and below 113 gm per kilometre thereafter. Diesel cars help manufacturers meet these norms. This now stands violated.
· The shift to petrol would increase the CO2 emission and the manufacturers can meet the CAFE norms only by producing more fuel efficient petrol cars or electric/hybrid vehicles.
Better alternatives
· The government should catalyse this shift to green vehicles by offering technology based incentives
· The government can speed up things by coming out with Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME) – 2 norms which should incentivise the manufacturer rather than the buyer.
· Costlier diesel engines will also increase the cost of public and goods transportation.
· Policies therefore should push buses with urban applications (city buses and corporate fleet) to embrace electrification.
· As regards goods movement, the only option is to reduce the heavy share of road transportation by focussing on coastal shipping and use of inland waterways to move goods.
