My bike already crossed 15 years, I do not ride it anymore. Hence thought of scrapping it instead of selling
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GOI Ministry of Road Transport & Highways came up with standardized scrapping policy sometime around 2021-22. Before the policy was defined, this industry and process was unorganized and no standard for a clean scrapping of your vehicle in a hassle free way. Without involving any other party, you can now scrap any vehicle including accident damaged vehicle, irreparable or old vehicle, not fit to drive/ride vehicles, road worthy or not, in working condition or not, everything. The execution of policy is happening in phased manner to different state and different city. It’s officially available to Karnataka, not sure how it would work in other cities, but in Bangalore they have a facility ready.
My bike already crossed 15 years, I do not ride it anymore. Hence thought of scrapping it instead of selling; for reasons that I do not want to go to RTO for renew registration by going to Pune and I lost my original registration card couple of months back while cleaning old documents and discarded it by mistake. I came to know about this scrapping process from an online advertisement of Mahindra as a vendor in the process. The venture is known as Cero Recycling (https://cerorecycling.com/how-it-works). I gave my details for a call back and got a call from Cero within an hour. However the discussion was not fruitful. Couple of reasons for that – My bike is registered in Maharashtra and currently I am in Bangalore. Secondly no original RC. Cero team clearly told, they need NOC/address changed to Karnataka and original RC. I sort of gave up on this and eventually forgot about it.
One fine day around end of September I get a call from someone from Cero. This time it was more promising. The person mentioned, the process is more stream lined and vehicle does not need to be from same state. On original RC, he said a xerox and police complaint copy is sufficient for them. Got little busy with work and family and sort of forgot about it again. This time the person whatsapp me within a week about the scrapping and what I think. So on a Saturday I called him, he explained the process and whatsapp me the documents I need to keep ready. It is actually quite easy.
Visit Vscrap site and login as Vehicle Owner – using your vehicle registration number (the one you want to scrap) and Aadhaar.
Click on “Scrap your vehicle” and fill the application form. No prefill of old address from registration card, you can give your current address. Provide PAN, Bank details, and select vendor.
Point to note – you have an option to keep the registration number with you, but for this it redirects to MH RTO site and it’s a paid service. I was not interested keeping a MH number so I skipped that part.
vscrap application page
Go next and upload Aadhaar (or any one from the list given) as owner’s address proof. Submit your application. You will get a confirmation mail from vscrap.parivahan.gov.in about the application.
Upload owner’s address proof
Application submitted successfully
Now you have to provide images of your vehicle in current state, RC copy, PAN, Aadhar, unladen weight to the agent of Cero. I think there is a way to upload these documents on Cero site too, but I was not aware of this site, so I shared this with the agent. Within 15 min they offered a price of ₹3500 for the bike, looks like this depends on unladen weight. I did not bargain and said ok. I immediately got two mail one from parivahan saying vendor accepted the application and one from Cero saying they accepted the request with an offer of 3500 with all bike details.
Confirmation on vscrap.parivahan.gov.in site.
You can track your application process on Cero
Now wait for towing person to come and collect the vehicle. It takes around 1 ~ 2 weeks depending on their demand. Looks like they wait for 3-4 bike collection to be in line and then the come and collect all. Towing is included in the process, nothing charged for this.
They bring the printout of application you submitted in vscrap site and another printout of invoice of amount you agreed on selling the bike. You have to sign both, handover original RC. In my case it was xerox of RC + police complaint. I’ll explain how to get the police complaint done in next post.
They take both documents you signed; along with that, a photo of you, the towing person holding RC card and application with the bike. They ask you to keep a photo of documents you signed.
Bye bye my dear Bike
The bike was taken in the late afternoon, so next day morning I got a payment of ₹3500 (with a mail saying payment initiated) and in next 2 hours I got an assurance letter.
Assurance letter
This is where I am now. I am told it takes 2-3 weeks for the vehicle to be scrapped and I would be given the document of destruction and update parivahan site accordingly. This document can be traded and get benefit while buying new vehicle; this document would be valid for two years. The certificate of destruction can be used to deregister the vehicle if the registration is still valid in anyone’s case.
The whole process from initial application to handover your vehicle to vendor is seamless and professionally taken care with all step trackable. The Cero person was also helpful and always answered all question to satisfaction.
If you lose any document, Karnataka police has an online portal to file a complaint with them. This is equivalent of General Dairy.
Visit https://kspapp.in/ksp/api/elost-reports. Click on login, it would redirect your to epramaan site. You have to register with epramaan site if not already registered. This registration is based on Aadhaar authentication only.
Now you can create a lost report. Provide all details. Like the document ID, and any other details – I have provided all the details of RC card. Also they ask to provide last known location of the document and how you lost it.
Upload the copy of original document and submit. Once submitted, you will get acknowledgement in pdf format in your mail. This acknowledgement will show your details, the date time you lost the document and only the document name & id; no other details. But with report id/QR code on document this can be verified by authority. This is how it looks
This document can be produced to any authority to get a duplicate of original document.
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