New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- The Delhi Government today relaxed the norms for issuing No Objection Certificates (NOCs) for deregistered vehicles in the capital, effectively removing the previous one-year cap on obtaining the document. Owners of end-of-life vehicles-diesel vehicles aged over 10 years and petrol vehicles over 15 years old-can now apply for an NOC to re-register their vehicles in other states outside the Delhi-NCR region, regardless of the expiry date of the vehicle's registration.
Delhi Transport Minister, Pankaj Kumar Singh, noted the inconvenience caused to the public by the earlier rule. "We found that the one-year deadline for NOC was creating an unintended logjam, leaving lakhs of vehicles stranded in Delhi. These vehicles wer...