Auto Fuel Quality Road Maps in India

1. Auto Fuel Quality Road Maps in India Ranjan Kumar Bose, Ph.D. Senior Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India Presented at Regional Workshop on “Developing Fuel Quality Roadmaps in Asia” Held at ADB Headquarters, Manila (22-23 May 2006)

2. Notifications • Norms were notified under • Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 • The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 • Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 • Emission norms were first notified in 1991 • New vehicles • In-use vehicles • Emission norms were revised in 1996 • Auto Fuel Policy Committee set up in 2001 • Auto Fuel roadmap in August 2002 • Bharat Stage I (Euro I equivalent) were introduced from April 2000 in Delhi and subsequently to other 3 metro cities • Bharat Stage II in Delhi from later half of 2000 extended to other 3 metro cities in 2001

3. Government of India’s roadmap for new vehicles

4. Present and revised PUC norms in India

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