Supreme Court limits sale of BS-IV vehicles to March 31, 2020

The Supreme Court has ruled that no Bharat Stage-IV (BS-IV) vehicle will be sold across the country with effect from April 1, 2020. In 2016, the centre had announced that India would skip BS-V norms and adopt BS-VI norms directly by 2020. The BS-VI emission norms will come into force from April 1, 2020.