The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, (MoRTH) on March 15, 2024, notified the Central Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Amendment Rules, 2024 to further amend
Auto-makers favour hike in prices of diesel and oppose higher excise duty on diesel cars The finance ministry has asked auto-makers to provide production and sales data of diesel vehicles, even as the
New Delhi Urging the government not to raise excise duty on diesel cars, top executives of country's leading automobile firms met the finance ministry officials on Wednesday. The finance ministry, which
Chennai ranks fifth in carbon emissions from the transport sector among 54 South Asian cities, according to a study done by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiative. Disclosing the findings of the study during a conference on ‘Creating Carbon Neutral Chennai: Planning for Integrated Freight Movement’ here on Wednesday, ICLEI research officer Ali Adil said the city’s emission levels in transport is much higher than Kolkata and Delhi.
“At this rate, the Capital will be gasping for breath by 2021” Delhi's air quality is worsening and if urgent action is not taken we will have a serious problem at hand, warns Centre for Science and Environment's latest report card. “The summer of 2012 is a grim reminder of the severe and worsening multi-pollutant crisis. CSE's analysis of the official air quality data shows that ozone, the new predator in town, has exceeded standards on all days in May and most days in April this year in areas including Civil Lines and the airport and on 80 per cent days in residential colonies including R. K. Puram,” notes the report.
New Delhi: On Tuesday, the transport department started the year’s first pollution checking drive as part of its World Environment Day initiative. With the drive reduced to an annual affair — the last
In the wake of a marked preference of personal vehicle owners, more so after the hike in petrol prices, the Finance Ministry is having a re-look at the Petroleum Ministry's proposal to hike the excise levy duty on diesel cars so as to disincentivise consumption of the subsidised transportation fuel. Indicating to the media that the proposal is still under the government's scanner, CBEC (Central Board of Excise and Customs) Chairman S. K. Goel said: “The proposal is there and that is being examined by Finance Minister. Consultations are being held and appropriate decision will be taken by the government in due course.”
After the Supreme Court directive to remove sun control films from car windows, the city is threatened with a new pollutant. Hundreds of these tinted films being removed on a day-to-day basis, have found a place in the streets after the Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) intensified the drive against sun control films. It is estimated that films from around 500 vehicles are removed on a daily basis in the city.
A2Z Waste Management, the agency roped in by the civic custodians to keep Ranchi clean, has found a tech route to keep a tab on vehicles used for collecting and disposing garbage and their drivers. The
In a damning indictment of large-scale financial irregularities in the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scheme in Uttar Pradesh during the erstwhile Mayawati regime, the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) has noted that funds worth Rs. 1768.12 crore received from the Centre “through the treasury route” were not shown in the accounts of the State Health Society (SHS). The CAG found that funds totalling Rs. 1546.09 crore for undertaking civil construction works and procurement of kits and vehicles during 2008-11 were released through an unauthorised agency, which was allegedly set up in violation of NRHM norms.
All vehicles will once again be allowed to ply on the lanes reserved for buses on the city’s BRT corridor after the Delhi high court’s directive to the government on Wednesday calling for opening the stretch to all vehicles for smooth flow of traffic. The court asked the city government to continue with this arrangement made by the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) during the experimental trial run of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand from May 12 to May 23 till it gives a final order on the issue
