VEHICLE SCRAPPAGE POLICY AND ROAD SAFETY INITIATIVES

• Vehicle Scrappage Policy (Voluntary Vehicle-Fleet Modernisation Programme, V-VMP) is a Government of India ecosystem to phase out old, unfit and polluting vehicles via a network of Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facilities (RVSFs) and Automated Testing Stations (ATSs).
• Administered by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH); statutory backing flows from the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and rules notified in 2021.
• For UPSC, the topic intersects GS-III (infrastructure, environment, circular economy) and GS-II (Centre–State fiscal transfers via SASCI).