Report-The Govt. make vehicle recalling mandatory

The Government of India has reportedly informed that it’s still has not formed a motion, in order to ask the manufacturers to act on recalling the vehicles mandatorily in case of defects found in them. Right now, it’s on the company’s discreet weather to recall a manufacture defect model or not, that is applied for all the manufacturers, it’s solely the company  decision weather to call back the model or not. If they feel that the defect is not affecting the safety parameters of the vehicle, they might just repair it without any additional cost. As there is no memorandum assigned by the Govt. for such cases.

 

Once on being asked, if the govt. has any plan or a proposal in such a scenario when the manufacturer would have to face off with mandatory instructions in recalling the vehicle back, other than fixing and concealing the fault or defect, Sh. G M Siddheshwara (Minister of heavy Industries) responded unfavorable.

 

 

 

The interesting part is, the Road transport and Safety Bill 2015, ha guidelines advising a mandatory recall policy for its vehicles. To add on, it even recommended, that the makers should be made answerable and would ask to reimburse for the damage caused due to the defect. Also it stated penalties on the maker for not informing the buyer about the fault before the sales. Under the voluntary recall policy revealed in July, 2012 by Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), around 7 lakh vehicles have been recalled till date.