making commercial vehicles, have been building up BS-III inventory suggests that they may be trying to delay introduction of BS-IV vehicles by several months. "In EU, the so-called end-of-series vehicles are restricted to less than 10 per cent of sales from previous year. "Allowing new BS-III commercial vehicles to register beyond April 1 will lock in high emissions from these vehicles for a couple of decades. As a result, it does not seem appropriate to allow registrations of BS-III vehicles beyond April 1, 2017," said Bandivadekar. "This was a good enough time and any inventory issue is only because of wrong planning on manufacturers' front.

Source: dna March 28, 2017 14:48 UTC