Natrips vehicle safety testing facilities to be ready by year end

The seven state of the art automotive design and testing centres being set up as per best global standards by the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRiP) will be fully operational by December 2016 , some of them are already operational. 

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has set October 2017 as the deadline for mandatory crash test for new models and October 2019 for existing cars. The high speed testing track is being developed at Indore centre and will be fully operational within next couple of years.

 
“NATRiP’s centres will be all ready by the year end. The infotronics laboratory and crash testing labs will be operational by June this year and the high-speed testing track will come up in two years", said Sanjay Bandopadhyay, ceo of NATRiP. While speaking at a Two-day seminar on “Road safety — Time for action” jointly organised by MoRTH and International Road Federation (IRF).

"The seven facilities coming up at Manesar, Bangalore, Rai Bareli, Silchar, Indore, Pune and Chennai under NATRiP are the best in the world for carrying out all safety tests including frontal and side crash test for vehicles. With the focus now shifting on to safer vehicles and test facilties becoming operational, the automobile manufacturers in the country will get the best of them. The test centres will become operational and the automobile manufacturers will get best of the testing facilities in the country itself", said Bandopadhyay.