Government has introduced several safety standards,
which are very similar to international regulations. All such requirements are
notified under Central Motor Vehicles Rules,
1989 (CMVRs) from time to time. The following are the latest requirements which are
in-line with international standards. These standards are already notified
effective from the dates indicated.
|
Date of
Implementation
|
Applicability
|
Standard and
description
|
UN Equivalent
Standards
|
Pertaining to
|
|
1st Oct 2017
|
New car models,
and LMV of GVW < 1500 kg
|
AIS 096 – Protection of driver with
regards to steering column intrusion (speed of impact ~ 50 kmph)
|
UN ECE R12
|
Full Frontal Crash test
|
|
New car models –
GVW < 2500 kg
|
AIS 098 – Protection of the drivers
and passengers in the event of an offset frontal collision (Speed of impact –
56 kmph)
|
UN ECE R98
|
40% overlap offset frontal crash test
|
|
New Car models and
LCV category vehicles (with respect to height of vehicles)
|
AIS 099 –Protection of the Occupants
in the event of a Lateral Collision (Speed of impact – 50 kmph)
|
UN ECE R99
|
Test of Moving deformable barrier
crash perpendicular into stationary vehicle
|
|
1st Oct 2018
|
New car models –
GVW < 2500 kg
|
AIS 100 – Protection of pedestrians
and other vulnerable road users in the event of a collision with a car
|
GTR 9
|
Pedestrian body forms being impacted
on the hood of the vehicle
|
|
1st Oct 2019
|
All car models,
and LMV of GVW < 1500 kg
|
AIS 096 – Protection of driver with
regards to steering column intrusion (speed of impact ~ 50 kmph)
|
UN ECE R12
|
Full Frontal Crash test
|
|
All car models –
GVW < 2500 kg
|
AIS 098 – Protection of the drivers
and passengers in the event of an offset frontal collision (Speed of impact –
56 kmph)
|
UN ECE R98
|
40% overlap offset frontal crash test
|
|
All Car models and
LCV models category vehicles (with respect to height of vehicles)
|
AIS 099 –Protection of the Occupants
in the event of a Lateral Collision (Speed of impact – 50 kmph)
|
UN ECE R99
|
Test of Moving deformable barrier
crash perpendicular into stationary vehicle
|
|
1st Oct 2020
|
All car models –
GVW < 2500 kg
|
AIS 100 – Protection of pedestrians
and other vulnerable road users in the event of a collision with a car
|
GTR 9
|
Pedestrian body forms being impacted
on the hood of the vehicle
|
The government, under the National
Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRiP) initiative has
taken up project to setup state of art testing centres at Pune (Automotive
Research Association of India), Manesar (International Centre for Automotive
Technology), and Chennai (Global Automotive Research Centre). Of these centres,
Crash Test Centre at ARAI is already operational and facility at ICAT is in
advance stage of completion. The centre at Chennai (GARC) is expected to be
ready by next year.
Cars being manufactured from the dates
mentioned in the above table need to have compliance at the manufacturing
stage. In addition, standards for Seat Belts and their Anchorages, Child Seats,
Seats and their Anchorages are already mandated step by step since 2010. Regarding
Emission, the current notified requirement is Bharat Stage IV (BS IV). The
Government has notified draft
notification GSR 187(E) dated 19.02.2016 to introduce Bharat Stage VI emission
norms, skipping BS-V emission norms for all vehicles to be applicable all over
the country by 1st April, 2020.
This information was given by Minister of State for
Road Transport & Highways, Shri Pon. Radhakrishnan in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.
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