Old Govt Vehicles To Be Phased Out As Centre Mulls Formal Mechanism To Scrap Old Polluting Vehicles by Arun Kumar Das - Jan 15, 2021 04:22 AM Representative image. (Wikipedia/Hindustan Ambassador) Snapshot Steps are also being undertaken to introduce a stringent fitness and emission-related regime for phasing out of old personal vehicles With the aim of having a pollution-free environment, the Union Government is likely to go for mandatory scrapping of government vehicles which are more than 15 years old. Though the share of government vehicles is negligible, at least a beginning can be made with this move to roll out the formal mechanisms to scrap old polluting vehicles.