Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
A recent report by the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) had described these hand-carted PUC pop-ups as an “extreme form” of “unauthorised PUC certification”. It’s half past six in the evening and trucks hauling large containers are speeding in from the Rajasthan side of the border with Haryana. Fifteen minutes …
Delhi is continuing to struggle with its Pollution Under Control (PUC) programme which is reportedly not well-equipped to test diesel vehicles for emissions and particulate matter, an Indian Express report said. This is not the first report to say so. In fact, several reports have shown that diesel vehicles are …
The EPCA has recommended to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to set up advanced inspection centres to measure key pollutants While cities like London are gearing up to impose a vehicle pollution charge on older and more polluting vehicles later this year, India’s capital is still grappling with …
Weak PUC rules help most cars pass pollution test, according to EPCA audit. New Delhi: Lakhs of vehicles in Delhi are plying without the mandatory “pollution under control” (PUC) certificates, an audit by the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), has found. The audit of 970 certified centres in the national …
The blatant violations, that potentially imperil the health of millions, have put the spotlight on around 970 centres in the city, that are certified to check the emission content of around 70 lakh vehicles in the city. New Delhi: Delhi, a global air-pollution hotspot, has lakhs of vehicles plying without …
Delhi has 971 PUC centres but the transport department has 28 inspectors and only one available for “ground inspection”. WITH HAND-CARTS functioning as Pollution Under Control (PUCs) in the city, a report by the Environmental Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has found that existing PUC programmes are not adequate …
This report submitted by the Environmental Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) to Supreme Court on March 24, 2017 has found that existing PUC programmes are not adequate to address the transition to Bharat Stage (BS) VI emission standards, likely to be enforced by 2020. The last audit of PUCs …
While National Green Tribunal (NGT) came down hard on the increasing pollution levels, the Delhi transport department carried out a unique audit of all the pollution checking centres in the capital. Of the total 968 pollution under control (PUC) centres in Delhi, the department conducted an audit of 709. "The …
Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday chaired a high level meeting on controlling air pollution in the capital. The meeting saw discussions on the amendment of the Central Motor Vehicle (CMV) rules to introduce a policy for scrapping seized vehicles that are more than 15 years old. It was in …
Chairing a high-level meeting on air pollution in Delhi, Lt Governor Anil Baijal today directed Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to set up 20 more real-time monitoring stations and set a deadline of October for 14 new stations. On the long-pending overflowing landfill sites, the LG office said that the …
GURUGRAM: You can no longer take a picture of your vehicle's number plate, send it to a pollution under control (PUC) certifying centre on WhatsApp, and get a certificate issued on the app instantly. Five PUC centres which were issuing certificates on WhatsApp for the past year — without actually …
Toxicity rising in top gear: CSE report finds shocking pitfalls in car emission testing One of the biggest corporate frauds in the global automobile industry - the Volkswagen defeat device case - and the mounting evidence from Europe that most new diesel cars are emitting much higher than their certification …
There's tall talk about reducing alarming pollution levels in the city, but traffic police and officials of Road Transport Authority (RTA) don't have equipment to measure actual pollution levels of vehicles on roads. A study conducted by Pollution Control Board in 2016 revealed over 200 tonnes of carbon monoxide were …
Worried about the capital's high level of air pollution, the Supreme Court has directed the Environment Pollution Control Authority to inspect all 962 cent res which issue pollutionunder-control certificates to vehicles in Delhi in order to ensure that they stick to the laid-down standards. The court also gave the EPCA …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned that the problem of air pollution was very serious and solutions need to be found urgently, rather than in years. "This pollution problem is very serious. If you talk for years for a solution, then it is a problem," a bench of Justices MB …
Students explain how their device works when connected to the engine of a vehicle Four mechanical engineering students from Nashik have invented a device which is an indicator for the vehicle driver about excessive pollutant levels, while driving. The third year students of Sandip Polytechnic — Vikas Sonawane, Akash Thete, …
NEW DELHI: After being rapped for not adopting any emergency smog control measure, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is preparing an action plan that will be submitted to the Supreme Court on November 25. To draft the plan, the board has depended on the AQI calendar that shows the …
Ahmedabad: The state government will give its final touches to a comprehensive air action plan for Ahmedabad city in the coming few days. This will be the second such action plan since 2002. The continuous toxic smoke pumped into our air by the Pirana dump fire, gas leak complaints from …
According to transport department officials, pollution from vehicles, has been increasing rapidly across the state, especially in major cities such as Pune and Mumbai. With a steady rise in vehicles emerging as a major contributor to the high air pollution in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra, the road transport …
IN A meeting held on Monday, Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung directed the Delhi Police to be the “field workers core to implementing the decisions” taken to mitigate pollution levels in the city. The meeting was attended by all civic agency heads, the Delhi Police, the Delhi Cabinet ministers and environmentalists …
