new delhi india is all set to enter the strict bsvi emission era from tuesday midnight with indian automobile industry pumping in around rs 700000 crore in the last four years to upgrade its technologywhile auto companies put in around rs 40000 crore to upgrade their facilities and products the auto component industry chipped in with an investment of rs 30000 crore for the sameoriginally automobile manufacturers across segments were to not produce or sell bsiv vehicles from midnight tonight although the supreme court recently allowed sale and registration of bsiv vehicles for ten days after the end of the ongoing lockdownautomotive component manufacturers association of india acma president deepak jain said the auto components industry invested around rs 30000 crore for migrating to bsvi regimein the longterm the changeover to stricter emission norms would be beneficial for the country but in shortterm it would bring pain in terms of price escalation to an industry which is already reeling under a slowdown and now the lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic he addedbesides this we also need initiatives like scrappage policy at the earliest to chuck out old polluting vehicles from roads jain saidreflecting upon the companys journey of upgrading to stricter emission norms maruti suzuki india msi senior executive director and member of executive board cv raman said the auto major conducted over 11000 emission tests across 14 models besides spending hundreds of hours on engine calibration and validationsall of these efforts helped us in phasing out bsiv systematically and we are glad to share that we barely have any bsiv inventory left we were able to liquidate all our bsiv stock and hence there is no need for any fire sales from maruti raman saidthe company had upgraded its mass models such as alto and baleno with bsvi petrol engines in april 2019 this was closely followed by other modelsmsi stopped production of bsiv vehicles in january 2020 in fact the auto major has already sold over 75 lakh bsvi units till datesimilarly toyota kirloskar motor tkm senior vice president naveen soni said the companys vehicles turned compliant to bsvi norms well ahead of timewe have been successful in upgrading our vehicles to bsvi technology before the stipulated timelines thereby allowing us to focus on the production and sale of bsvi vehicles he notedvarious other carmakers including honda hyundai and tata motors have also worked towards making their products bsvi compliantsimilarly various twowheeler companies and commercial vehicle players have also announced transition to bsvi normson a petition filed by auto dealers body fada the supreme court on march 27 allowed the sale of unsold stock of bsiv vehicles for 10 days after the expiry of the lockdown period except in delhincrthe federation of automobile dealers association fada had sought additional time of two months to clear the bsiv inventorythe nationwide lockdown imposed on march 24 to check spread of coronavirus will last till april 14the government in 2016 had asked automobile industry to upgrade to bsvi norms by april