2nd test centre for commercial vehicles in works

The transport department will lay the foundation and start work on the city’s second automated testing centre (ATC) for commercial vehicles near the Nand Nagri bus depot, in northeast Delhi, on Thursday, officials aware of the matter said.

- Snehil Sinha

The new centre will add the capacity to test 72,000 vehicles annually.

According to the department, Delhi has around 450,000 commercial vehicles that need to be tested every year, but the current ATC, at Jhuljhuli, can handle only around 200,000.

The rest, including trucks, buses, smaller pickup vans, all goods vehicles and cabs, get tested outside Delhi. The new centre will bring in at least ₹3 crore annual revenue, which currently goes to other states, officials said.