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 …
BHOPAL: If you believe the traffic police, there is not a single polluting vehicle in Bhopal. No vehicle has been challaned for not having the pollution clearance certificate all of this year whereas in 2015, 46 vehicles were fined. But the miracle story is only on paper. Stand at any …
Centres will be linked to central server through software to be procured from Keltron : The Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) is preparing to tighten the grip over automobile pollution testing centres to ensure that they comply with emission norms, and do not issue certificates to polluting motor vehicles. The initiative …
Operating without licence, many illegal centres thrive on city’s roadsides in worn-out vans The recent arrest of three youths have brought the focus back to the illegal air pollution check centres thriving in the city. While the District Transport Department seemed to be incapable of keeping a close watch on …
The Transport department is creating a network to automatically generate penalty challans for vehicle owners who fail to get their Pollution Under Control (PUC) test done once in six months. At present, the department depends on random manual drives to check 1.6 crore vehicles in the state to know if …
The decrease in the number of vehicles being checked has been attributed to the lackadaisical attitude by both PUC centres and vehicle owners. THE number of vehicles checked for pollution in Greater Mumbai has reduced by at least 40 per cent over a period of three years, indicates data from …
Bengaluru: To curb pollution, over 2,000 vehicles were checked and 134 drivers booked at Cubbon Park on Thursday. During a joint drive, the transport department and the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) officials found that some vehicles were not just highly polluting but also had invalid emission test certificates. …
Motor third party policies may soon be available at pollution check centres and other agencies following insurance regulator IRDAI approval to the proposal of relaxing norms. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has approved relaxation of norms in the proposed IRDAI (Appointment of Insurance Agents) Regulations, 2016. During the …
Special enforcement drive across city from June 21 Faced with increasing air pollution in the city, various agencies have decided to launch a drive from June 21 to ensure that all vehicle users possess ‘Pollution Under Control’ certificates for their vehicles. In a co-ordination committee meeting on Thursday, officials representing …
STA revises charges, increases penalty Getting a pollution under control (PUC) certificate will cost more in the city as the State Transport Authority (STA) has revised the charges for pollution check and issuance of the certificate. Sources said the decision was taken at a recent meeting of the STA. Besides, …
The transport department in coordination with Pollution Control Board and traffic police will jointly implement the project. Hyderabad: The Telangana government has given a green signal to the transport department to replace the existing road-side pollution-checking mobile testing units with latest equipment. Officials said that they will call for tenders …
Just a three minute halt at the dusty, noisy and congested Teen Hath Nath junction could possibly reduce three hours of your lifetime, say experts considering the toxic cloud created by hundreds of vehicles spewing smoke here. Data collected by the Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station (CAAQM) of the …
TMC pollution officer Manisha Pradhan shows Teen Hath Naka air quality data on the monitoring system Teen Hath Naka in Thane has earned for itself the notoriety of being the most congested and the most polluted traffic junction in the city after a recent study by the Thane Municipal Corporation …
THANE: A week-long awareness campaign against air poluution will be held at the traffic intersection of Teen Haath Naka junction by the city traffic police and the civic body from Wednesday. Vehicles will be checked for violations to pollution norms and the mandatory Pollution Under Check (PUC). Offials said the …
Ahmedabad: A comprehensive air action plan is being formulated by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, district collectorate and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) with the focus exclusively on reducing particulate matter pollution. The action plan actually follows the guidelines issued by the Union ministry of forest and environment (MoEF) in December …
Poor air quality across Indian cities threatens the health of millions, and pollution levels have remained at dangerous levels throughout the last decade. To address the urban air quality crisis, officials have targeted motor vehicles, a major source of pollution in urban areas. Actions to-date have emphasized cleaner fuels and …
Ahmedabad: The steady rise in particulate matter pollution over permissible limits has forced Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the district collectorate and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to formulate a new draft plan - a revision of the decade-old plan - to enforce air pollution control measures. This is the first …
Lucknow: The state transport department on Monday has directed its field officers and the traffic police to mandatorily check a vehicle's PUCC along with registration papers and driving license of the drivers, during routine inspections. Failure to produce the anti-pollution certificate would result in a Rs 1,000-fine and repeat offenders …
Gurgaon: Could the state be lowering pollution norms to appear more business-friendly? The recent move by Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB), to inspect only 20% of all local industries every year based on a draw of lots for pollution under control (PUC) clearance, instead of inspecting each and every …
‘In last one year, RTO has no record of inspections carried out at the centres by its officials despite it being mandatory by state transport department’ EVEN AS the Regional Transport Office (RTO) fines motorists for failing to carry their Polllution Under Control (PUC) certificates, it seems to be failing …
Various requisites to conduct the test would leave the organisers with slim margin. Visakhapatnam: Despite the mechanism to check pollution-level, the wrong use of it is adding to the woes of the increasing pollution in the city. The mobile vehicle pollution check centres which should conduct emission test and ensure …
