MOST: incompetence is the only norm
| Supreme Court orders to save lives | MOST’s way of incompetence |
| July 28, 1998: First list of orders | |
| February 9, 2000: Emission norms for converted buses notified | |
| First deadline: March 31, 2000 | |
| July 2000: Convoluted procedures for type approval certificate to agencies that convert buses to CNG | |
| December 2000: Convoluted procedures withdrawn after conversion agencies protest | |
| Second deadline: March 31, 2001 |