Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
Heavy Vehicles To Pay `Environment Compensation Charge' At Toll Booths In a move to check high level of air pollution in the capital, the Supreme Court on Monday formally imposed Environment Compensation Charge on vehicles entering Delhi from November 1. Heavy trucks would have to pay Rs 1,300 and light …
NEW DELHI: Delhi government may have welcomed the Supreme Court's order to levy a pollution fee on non-destined commercial vehicles going through the state, but officials admit that implementation by this November may be difficult. As per the SC order, commercial vehicles will be levied a pollution fee between Rs …
Charges on vehicles entering Delhi operative for four months on experimental basis, says Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Monday ordered imposition of ‘Environment Compensation Charge’ to the tune of Rs 700 on light duty vehicles and Rs 1,300 for three-axle vehicles and above, entering Delhi from November 1. A bench …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed that the environment compensation charge, worth Rs 700 from 2-axle vehicles and Rs 1300 for 3 axle and above, to be collected by toll operators at nine entry points in the city from Nov 1. In its detailed order, a bench, headed …
A single car-free day in Delhi is a good gesture, but mere tokenism will not work, environmentalists feel. Simply keeping cars off roads for half a day won't matter in the fight against pollution - but stopping trucks and diesel vehicles would. "Taking into consideration the emission numbers, a car-free …
Moved by a compelling picture drawn by three toddlers about children’s everyday struggle to survive Delhi’s poisonous air, the Supreme Court on Thursday stepped in to help them. A bench led by Chief Justice of India H.L. Dattu asked the Centre and the Delhi government to respond to the infants’ …
They fight bitterly to outsmart each other in politics but in the Supreme Court on Thursday, the governments led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre and by Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi were on the same page on imposition of hefty fee on polluting trucks passing through Delhi. Solicitor …
A day after the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT’s) order asking trucks to pay a pollution cess to enter Delhi, the Supreme Court on Thursday took it to the next level asking the Centre and the Delhi Government to suggest on Friday how to implement the collection and utilisation of the …
The bench, however, took note of the order passed by the NGT, putting additional tax burden on polluting trucks, and wondered if it still needs to adjudicate this issue. A day after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) imposed an additional tax burden on polluting trucks entering the capital, both the …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 09/10/2015. The issue relates to steps to be taken to check pollution by commercial traffic travelling from North India towards Jaipur and onwards via Delhi.
The Centre and the AAP government in Delhi will jointly tell the Supreme Court on Thursday that they are in favour of stiff charges being levied on thousands of trucks that lumber through the Capital every day, contributing to high levels of air pollution and congestion on roads. Environment and …
A study released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) India has pointed out that the estimate by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) — about the number of trucks entering the capital in a given period — is seriously flawed. Based on the findings of a survey conducted …
The Delhi government, it emerged at a meeting chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday, ‘did not have a stance’ on regulating thousands of heavy commercial vehicles, which have been polluting the air over the last 13 years. Organised in the wake of a Supreme Court directive that …
Stringent measures imposed by the apex court can lead to the government devising solutions to improve air quality Alarming air pollution levels in Delhi have once again left the Supreme Court fuming. The Chief Justice of India, HL Dattu, has sought the views of Delhi government and civic agencies on …
Trucks entering Delhi pollute the Capital’s air. While this information may not be new, the Centre for Science and Environment on Tuesday released a reportchallenging Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s data on the number of these trucks. The survey on the entry of trucks from nine points into Delhi finds the …
New Delhi: Delhi transport minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday said the government would levy a "pollution fee" on commercial vehicles entering the city. The announcement comes a day after the Supreme Court slammed the Centre as well as the state government for allowing a large number of trucks to pass …
Why are Delhiites forced to pay with their health for truckers to use the city as a transit route? The CSE survey found that it is economical for truckers. “It is cheaper to travel through Delhi than to take alternative roads. The road that cuts through the Capital has a …
The Hon’ble Supreme Court has been concerned about the pollution of trucks entering and leaving Delhi for the past decade. In its order of December 6, 2001, the Hon’ble Supreme Court had banned entry of non-destined commercial transit traffic effective from January 15, 2002. These vehicles could enter only on …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik & Others Vs. Union of India & Others dated 07/10/2015 regarding air pollution in Delhi. NGT in its order directs heavy vehicles entering Delhi to pay environmental compensation in terms of Sections-15 & 17 read with Section-14 of …
The Supreme Court on Monday seriously mulled slapping an additional surcharge on commercial vehicles entering Delhi to deter them from entering the city and causing acute air pollution that has forced Chief Justice of India HL Dattu's grandson to wear "a mask" and made the entire Salve family, the first …
