Unaccompanied Thinking

Person A drives responsibly, follows guidelines, gets regular servicing and maintenance. Person B drives recklessly, ignores maintenance, and the car ends up in terrible shape. Yet, in the Republic of India, both are treated the same. Once a car hits 10 or 15 years, it’s deemed unfit, regardless of how well it's maintained or how clean it runs. So where’s the incentive for being a model citizen? If age alone decides a car's fate, why bother with PUC? No car ever fails it anyway, even those belching black smoke somehow pass. At the very least, stop this PUC farce if cars are to be scrapped based purely on age, regardless of their emission status. This is nothing but institutionalized extortion, a system that punishes the responsible. Because the govt failed to weed out polluting vehicles through robust PUC enforcement, it’s now hiding that failure behind a blanket age-based ban. It’s NCR today, the whole country tomorrow.