Get ready to pay eight times more to renew registration of old private or commercial vehicles

Vehicle owners are now officially required to spend eight times higher fee for renewing their vehicles which are older than 15 years from April 2022.

Likewise, owners of commercial vehicles will have to pay almost eight times more for renewing the fitness certificates of their buses or trucks.

The ministry of road, transport and highways issued a notice on Monday to implement the new regime from next year.


Meanwhile, there would be little to no impact on the vehicle owners in Delhi and neighboring areas where diesel vehicles of 10 years or more and 15-year-old petrol vehicles are banned already.

As per the notification, renewal of registration of 15 year old cars will cost an owner Rs 5,000 in contrast to the current fee of Rs 600.

For old bikes the same charge would now be Rs 1,000 against current rate of Rs 300.

To acquire a fitness certificate for a bus or truck that is 15 year old, one would be required to spend Rs 12,500 as against the current price of Rs 1,500.

Rs 300 for private vehicles and Rs 500 for commercial vehicles would have to be paid in case owners delay the renewal of registration, while, renewal of fitness certificate for commercial vehicles, if delayed, would cost you Rs 50 a day.

The hike in these rates, as per a TOI report, is to discourage people from keeping their old vehicles.

Fitness certificates now mandatorily need to be renewed once a year, when a commercial vehicle turns 8 years old.

The government plans to do away with manual system of testing fitness of vehicles which, as per the same report, can be 'manipulated or rigged'.

Under the vehicle scrapping scheme, the ministry has issued the norms for setting up such centres.