Nitin Gadkari told that GOI is working on the 'Bharat NCAP' car safety rating system. Read details in our story.
Honorable Union Ministry of Transport & Highways minister Mr. Nitin Gadkari made clear that government is working on development of 'Bharat NCAP' car safety rating system to improve safety on Indian roads.
In a press conference recently, Mr. Gadkari accepted that the Indian car safety standards are loose, archaic and lack homogeneity . Have been working on road safety and infrastructure development intensively, Mr. Gadkari made statement that 'Bharat NCAP' is the name which is being worked over locally to test the safety features and safety integrity of new cars based on the global rating systems like G-NCAP.
Laying emphasis over the data, honorable minister also explained that more than 1,50,000 people loose lives in road accidents annually in India. To restrict this fatal data, government is concentrating over infrastructure as well as setting rigid safety standards for new cars.
The 'Bharat New Car Assessment Programme' shall lay focus over the standards set by various safety measuring private entities such as 'Latin-NCAP' and 'G-NCAP'.
Government is confident that such a safety standard rating will encourage and help the new car buyers in making informed and safe decisions. Also, currently, the rated products from various manufacturers have been conducted via private tests, this doesn't encourage every carmaker to test their vehicles. A local and sturdy car safety rating system will help every carmaker to design Safe passenger cars as well.
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Along with the new car safety rating system, the government has also made it officially mandatory for the car manufacturers to provide a three-point safety belt for front passengers. A proposal for making six airbags mandatory for new cars is also on the table and is being discussed with concerned authorities and manufacturers association.
In order to keep the production costs of new cars in control after the six-airbag mandatory rule, government has planned to introduce Production Linked Initiatives (PLI) such as local production of airbags. This will help both the manufacturers and consumers along increased safety.
In addition to this, it was also asked from public to provide their thoughts on an open forum about mandating the six-airbags as well as changing the proposed name of 'Bharat NCAP) to another name. Government intends to work according to the received inputs from public opinions.
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