Breaking: Govt makes 6 airbags mandatory for vehicles carrying upto 8 passengers

 The central government on Friday notified a draft policy for the mandatory installation of six airbags in passenger vehicles of a capacity of up to eight passengers.

 

Announcing the move today, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari tweeted, “In order to enhance the safety of the occupants in motor vehicles carrying up to eight passengers, I have now approved a draft notification to make a minimum of six airbags compulsory."

 

The government mandated driver airbags from July 2019 and front co-passenger airbag from the beginning of this month.

Giving details of where the airbags will be installed, Gadkari said, “to minimise the impact of frontal and lateral collisions to the occupants seated in both front and rear compartments, it has been decided that four additional airbags be mandated in the M1 vehicle category-two side/side torso airbags and two side curtain/tube airbags covering all outboard passengers”.