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20,39,500 unfit  two wheelers especially bikes and scooter will be scrapped as per the provision of scrappage policy

Bhubaneswar:23/2/23: As many as 20,39,500 unfit  two wheelers especially bikes and scooter will be scrapped as per the provision of scrappage policy, odisha government said today.

These vehicles have already exceeded 15 years having no fitness, State Transport Minister Tukuni Sahu told Odisha Assembly.

“The State government has decided to ban the old vehicles having no fitness from March 15, 2023. Among those vehicles, 12,99,351 are two-wheelers,” she said while responding to an unstarred question raised BJP MLA Kusum Tete.

The minister further informed, 80,20,200 vehicles are fit to ply on the road State government has already started the process to scrap 15-years-old vehicles with no fitness as per the provision of Odisha Government Scrapping Policy 2022.

Initially, the government vehicles without fitness certificate wil be scrapped in the first phase. Later, the individual vehicles crossing 15 years will be scrapped.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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