What is BS6 (BSVI)?

What is BS6 (BSVI)?

What is BS6 (BSVI) Engine?

By Government Bharat Stage Emission Standards (BSES), regulates the output of pollution from vehicles plying in the country. The Central Pollution Control Board which down under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change sets the standards to regulate emissions from vehicles in India.

The first emission norm, introduced in the year 2000, was known as ‘India 2000’ and later, BS2 and BS3 were introduced in 2005 and 2010, respectively. While the first three emission norms were introduced at regular intervals, But BS4 was introduced in 2017, after a gap of seven years.

The BSVI Engine emission standard is the sixth generation of the emission norm and comparatively, it is a substantial leap in terms of reducing pollution compared to the comparing BSIV engine. The BS5 (BSV) has been skipped in an effort to move to better emission norms.