"It is submitted that the cut-off date for rolling out BS-VI vehicles shall be in reference to date of manufacture and not date of registration as indicated in the ministry of road transport and highway notification. "The ministry of environment and forest has now become ministry of environment destruction. ""If the date of shift to BS-VI becomes date of registration then it would actually reduce the time available to industry for manufacturing to a mere two years or so although BS-VI fuel will not be available across the country till April 1, 2020. This will necessitate advancing the date of making BS-VI fuel available at a much much earlier date. The companies had a stock of 8,24,275 BS-III vehicles, which include 96,724 commercial vehicles, 6,71,308 two-wheelers, 40,048 three-wheelers and 16,198 cars

Source: Times of India August 19, 2017 12:47 UTC