India announces policy to encourage scrapping of old polluting vehicles

The Voluntary Vehicle-Fleet Modernisation Programme is expected to be fully implemented by June 2024. PHOTO: AFP
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NEW DELHI - Currently the world's fourth-largest motor vehicle market, India is expected to overtake Japan and occupy the third spot in the coming decade.

How it manages the increasing burden of its clunkers - which add to the country's pollution woes - has been an issue of concern.

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