Black and yellow cabs have a codal life of 20 years

Here's why old rickety Premier Padminis are still hanging around. After over a 100 such taxis were booted out by the new Vahan 4 software for being past their revised codal life of 20 years, it emerged that at the time of the amendment, the unions had pressured the government to extend the fitness certificate to make them pliable for a few more months.