{"id":19281,"date":"2024-01-13T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T02:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19281"},"modified":"2025-04-05T16:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:58:34","slug":"bs-vi-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bs-vi-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"What are BS-VI Norms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About BS-VI Norms<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bharat stage (BS) emission standards are laid down by the government to regulate the output of air pollutants\u00a0from\u00a0internal combustion engine\u00a0and spark-ignition engine equipment, including\u00a0motor vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>India has adopted\u00a0BS Emission Standards since 2000, modelled on European Union norms.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0first emission norms with the name \u2018India 2000\u2019 were introduced in the\u00a0year 2000. BS2 and BS3 were introduced in 2005 and 2010, while\u00a0BS4 norms came\u00a0into effect in 2017 with stricter emission standards or norms.<\/li>\n<li>The BS standards\u00a0regulate tailpipe emissions\u00a0of air pollutants,\u00a0including particulate matter, SOx, and NOx, as well as\u00a0carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and methane.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Who sets them? The standards and timeline for implementation are set by the\u00a0Central Pollution Control Board under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.<\/li>\n<li>In April 2020,\u00a0India leapfrogged from BS-IV to the implementation of BS-VI. The\u00a0central government has\u00a0mandated that vehicle makers must manufacture, sell, and\u00a0register only BS-VI (BS6) vehicles from April 1, 2020.\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0applicable for cars, trucks, buses, three-wheelers, and two-wheelers (motorcycles, scooters, and mopeds).<\/li>\n<li>This emission norm\u00a0does not apply to off-highway equipment and vehicles such as tractors, back-hoe loaders, excavators, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Difference between BS-IV and BS-VI:\n<ul>\n<li>Both BS-IV and BS-VI are unit emission norms that set the maximum permissible levels for pollutants that an automotive or a two-wheeler exhaust can emit.<\/li>\n<li>Compared to BS4,\u00a0BS6 emission standards are stricter.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0main difference is in the amount of sulphur\u00a0in the fuel, which is reduced from 50 ppm in BS IV fuel to 10 ppm in BS VI fuel for both gasoline and diesel. Hence, BSVI engines produce less harmful emissions and pollutants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB is a statutory body constituted in September, 1974 under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. Further, CPCB was entrusted with the powers and functions under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981. Principal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cpcb.nic.in\/functions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Functions<\/u><\/a> of the CPCB, as spelt out in the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, and the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, (i) to promote cleanliness of streams and wells in different areas of the States by prevention, control and abatement of water pollution, and (ii) to improve the quality of air and to prevent, control or abate air pollution in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/frame-policy-to-phase-out-heavy-diesel-vehicles-supreme-court-to-centre-101705001702814.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Frame policy to phase out heavy diesel vehicles: Supreme Court to Centre<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat stage (BS) emission standards are laid down by the government to regulate the output of air pollutants from internal combustion engine and spark-ignition engine equipment, including motor vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}