Over 13000 old vehicles in Meghalaya to be off road as per VSP: Govt

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMay 1, 2025

Over 13000 old vehicles in Meghalaya will be off road with government’s decision to implement the Vehicle Scrappage Policy for reducing air pollution in the state.

Addressing media persons after the cabinet meeting on Thursday, cabinet minister and government spokesperson Paul Lyngdoh said, “Old dilapidated cars, which no longer road worthy will come under this policy. Altogether, 13000 vehicles in Meghalaya will be off the road as per this new policy. Of this, 5000 are government vehicles and 8000 are private owned vehicles.”

He said the major benefits of having this policy is to allow the government to reduce the pollution level through less emission, reduce feul import, which means less extraction and recycling of raw material.

“At the moment, Shillong has roughly 2,76,262 vehicles followed by Tura and Jowai. We will now start addressing concerns relating to air pollution caused by inefficient and old vehicles,” Lyngdoh informed. 

“However, taking into account the overall economic condition of the people of the state, we will address the matter by first taking of government vehicles, which are 15 years and older. This will roughly mean that around 5000 government vehicles will come under this scrappage policy and therefore, will be off the road,” he said adding “Where private owned vehicles are concerned, we have decided to first implement by limiting this policy only to vehicles, which are 35 years and older and there are roughly 8000 such vehicles.”