Lucknow, Sept. 7 -- Nearly 40,000 e-rickshaws in Lucknow may face de-registration and eventual scrapping if their owners fail to comply with mandatory fitness and insurance requirements.

This is part of the transport department's plan to deal with a growing number of non-compliant vehicles in the city.

The department is considering suspending the registration of e-rickshaws that have remained without valid fitness certificates or insurance for a prolonged period. Owners will be given six months to rectify the deficiencies. Vehicles that remain non-compliant after the deadline could be de-registered, seized and sent to authorised scrapping centres, officials said. However, the department has not yet finalised the date from which the prop...