Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
BENGALURU: A dozen vehicles fitted with emission checking equipment will patrol the streets of Bengaluru to crack down on polluting vehicles as authorities are pulling up socks to ensure the IT capital does not go the New Delhi way. The mobile emission testing units are the result of a partnership …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court-appointed pollution control watchdog EPCA threw a surprise on Wednesday suggesting that vehicle manufacturers should stop selling vehicles that are BS-III compliant from next April. However, both automobile manufacturers and government don't favour such change in the policy, which they claimed would cause chaos. Sources said …
Pollution has been rightfully a growing concern in the country off late. This matter and the relevant numbers have lead the government to undertake many measures to help not only control but also reduce pollution in India. One of the most contentious among these endeavours, the accelerated timeline for Bharat …
The Finance Ministry has suggested putting the proposed policy before a Committee of Secretaries, the Road Transport and Highways Minister said after holding a meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on modernising the country's vehicle fleet. In order to check pollution, a new policy will be framed to make scrapping …
Delhi has become the fifth-largest market in passenger vehicle sales, pipping Kerala, where sales have dampened as remittance income gets dented due to the challenging economic conditions in the Middle East owing to low crude prices.While sales in Kerala grew about 2% to 1,95,400 units in FY16, Delhi registered sales …
The eastern bench of the National Green Tribunal on Thursday directed the state pollution control board to "continuously measure PM 2.5", the tiniest and most potent air pollutant, in Calcutta and Howrah. The directive is based on a report by an expert committee that the bench had formed. The pollution …
To be registered by Delhi RTO on production of certificate of condemning of old diesel vehicles The Delhi Fire Service got a green signal from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for registration of 10 new diesel vehicles conforming to BS-IV emission norms. “We permit the 10 vehicles of the Fire …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday cleared the decks for registration of 10 new diesel vehicles of Delhi Fire department which are conforming to BS-IV emission norms. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar granted the relief to the fire department after it was informed that the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 02/08/2016. This application was filed on behalf of the Fire Department, NCT of Delhi on the ground that Fire Department has already condemned 66 diesel vehicles which are more than 10 …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Fuel Emission Norms, 01/08/2016. BS-IV auto fuel supply has already been commenced in the areas covered in the first two phases. Further, this Ministry has also issued an order on 22.05.2015 to all OMCs & other stake holders conveying its readiness for switching over …
Isn't there a need to incentivise less polluted places to remain so instead of asking them to degrade the air quality there? This is not a rhetorical question but the anguished response of environmental experts to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordering diesel vehicles older than 10 years to move …
BENGALURU: With the National Green Tribunal asking the Delhi government to scrap 15-year-old vehicles as a pollution control measure, Karnataka's transport department will face a similar challenge soon. For, it's not just Delhi, every state will have to fall in line with the central government policy on pollution control sooner …
To reduce vehicular pollution across the country, the Government has taken proactive steps to promote environment friendly vehicles which are innovative, ushering in proactive use of natural resources. Bharat Stage IV Fuel Norms have been applicable since the year 2010 in Delhi and NCR and certain cities. The set norms …
Scrapping will promote replacement of old vehicles with modern ones with better emission standards NGT seeks details of groundwater use by Delhi Metro The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT’s) order on Monday to de-register diesel vehicles older than 10 years plying in Delhi has again brought to the fore the difficulties …
CHENNAI: More than 35% of the vehicles - 41.5% of cars and 35% of two-wheelers - in the city may go off the roads if the Centre implements a plan to scrap vehicles that are not Bharat Stage (BS) IV compliant or were registered before 2005. Of the 7.2 lakh …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Impact of Air Pollution, 19/07/2016. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has carried out epidemiological studies in the past to assess the impact of pollution on human health. Air Pollution could be one of the triggering factors for respiratory ailments and associated diseases. However, there …
Technology treatments that allow certain big cars to be cleaner than their smaller compatriots aren’t available here. Do big cars really cause less pollution than small ones, as Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has claimed in the Supreme Court? Fact is there is no way to ascertain that, simply because car …
The green panel says that the bench has clarified that the new vehicles will solely be used for transportation of waste to dumping sites The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi government to register two new diesel vehicles which are conforming to BS-IV norms and would be used …
Consumers will have to shell out more for power, fuel and cars in a few years as these industries begin to pass on the burden of technology upgrades being put in place for meeting increasingly stringent environmental and emission norms. The new environmental norms for coal-fired power plants, for example, …
KOCHI: Auto makers' apex body Society of Indian Automobile Manufactures (SIAM) has approached the Kerala High Court seeking to lift the ban imposed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) on plying diesel vehicles over 10 years old and registration of new diesel vehicles over 2,000CC. The petition filed by Atanu Ganguli, …
