new delhi vehicle manufacturers in india would have no option but for mandatory recall of faulty vehicles that may impact the environment adversely or harm the driver or occupants paving way for such stringent norms on the lines of those adopted in developed countries amendments to the motor vehicles act introduced in lok sabha on tuesday specifies the conditions for triggering such a recall by the government and for imposing penalty on the manufacturers at present in the absence of any specific provision in the law vehicle makers have been practising voluntary recall while the bill has proposed stricter penalty and even reimbursing full cost of the vehicle to buyers or replacing the defective vehicle it provides a life line to the companies if they inform the government about any defect in a vehicle and initiate recall proceedings voluntarily in such cases they shall not be liable to pay fine to the government read also car makers may face stiff fine jail for flouting rules the proposed amendments mention that the central government can direct a manufacturer to recall motor vehicles of a particular type or its variants if a defect in that particular type of motor vehicle may cause harm to the environment or to the driver or occupants of such motor vehicle or other road users it also specifies that such an order can be issued if a defect in a particular type of motor vehicle has been reported to the central government by a percentage of owners which the government would notify or a testing agency according to the amendments introduced in the lok sabha the central government may authorise any officer to conduct investigation and summon any person for examination he would also have the power to order production of any document receiving evidence on affidavit by dipak k dash tnn published on aug 10 2016 at 0941 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app lok sabha motor vehicles act product recall amendments penalties homenewsindustryrecall of defective vehicles mandatory for auto cos under mv act