Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Shafi Mohamed Meer Vs State of Maharashtra & Others dated 18/11/2016 regarding restraining the induction of two-stroke three-wheelers i.e. autorickshaws in cities of Maharashtra. The Applicant submits that the Government has misled the public at large …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Shafi Mohamed Meer Vs State of Maharashtra & Others dated 18/11/2016 regarding restraining the induction of two-stroke three-wheelers i.e. autorickshaws in cities of Maharashtra. The Applicant submits that the Government has misled the public at large …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of New Link Road Residents Forum & Others Vs. The Union of India & Others dated 01/03/2016 regarding pollution caused by two-stroke engines in auto rickshaws in Mumbai. This Application raises the issue of granting permits to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of K. Manoharan Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 26/02/2016 regarding regarding growing air pollution in NCT of Delhi caused by vehicles, 26/02/2016. The Ministry of Environment & Forest, & CC and Central Pollution Control Board shall constitute appropriate teams …
The citizens of Sadiqabad have demanded a ban on the two-stroke rickshaws which emit smoke and are causing rapid spread of various diseases in the city. They were of the view that the rickshaws are run on petrol mixed with oil which cause spread of Asthma, Tuberculosis, cancer and other …
The Punjab secretary has issued orders to replace the two-stroke rickshaws with four-stroke ones or to convert the two-stroke into four-stroke. Two-stroke rickshaws will be banned after March 1, the Punjab secretary said in a notification. The government is of the view that two-stroke rickshaws caused environmental pollution, which could …
Yet another deadline to convert some 60,000 two-stroke rickshaws into four-stroke plying on the roads of the province to make them environment-friendly is about to over by the end of June this year. It is pity that even first phase of converting 500 such rickshaws have not been kicked off …
The banned two-stroke autorickshaws are out in strength in New Town, the only mode of easily available, cheap public transport in a township crying out for basic amenities. More than 700 two-stroke autos, most running on a lethal mix of polluting fuels called katatel, ply on the 15km main arterial …
The residents of Haripur District are exposed to the increasing noise and air pollution caused by vehicular traffic especially the tri-wheelers. The noise from these vehicles is much beyond the permissible limit set under the National Environmental Quality Standards NEQS, medical experts and citizens say. The ever increasing number of …
KOLKATA, 13 SEPT: While the Public Vehicles Department and the state transport department continue haggling over the numbers of two-stroke autos scrapped in almost two years after the Calcutta High Court verdict, old but repainted autos continue to rule the city suburbs. Mr Sumantra Chowdhury, state transport secretary, said that …
residents of Kolkata are breathing cleaner air this year¤ according to recent findings of the West Bengal state pollution control board (spcb). The high court order banning two-stroke autorickshaws and old commercial vehicles is said to be the reason for reduction in air pollution in the city. The court order …
Vehicles more than 15 years old and two-stroke auto rickshaws continue to ply on Kolkata streets. This is despite the high court setting August 1 as the deadline to get such vehicles off the Kolkata Metropolitan Area and the Supreme Court upholding the high court order (see
Transport operators faced a double whammy on Monday with the Supreme Court refusing to give polluting buses and taxis a new lease of life and Calcutta High Court dismissing a petition challenging the decision to junk seized two-stroke autos. The apex court bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice …
A small, retrofitted LPG kit may make 10,000 two-stroke autos street legal but they will continue to pollute more than the four-stroke ones, warn experts.
- LPG plan activated to let more autos run as real test begins OUR BUREAU As the city braces for its first weekday tomorrow since the vehicle pollution ban hit its streets, the government has worked out a plan of
Old out but no sign of new Calcutta was meant to get cleaner air without compromising on transport but poor planning has ensured that there are no replacements yet for the 70,000 polluting autos and 6,300 taxis going off the road on Saturday. According to official records, only around 1,900 …
After showing the graffiti-scarred city how to keep its walls clean at poll time, Salt Lake seems to be leading the clean-fuel move with around 50 per cent of its two-stroke auto fleet going visibly green. Officials of the Regional Transport Authority (RTA), North 24-Parganas, and Citu leaders told Metro …
The government is making a hush-hush move to give two-stroke autos an escape route. The writ so far, ruled by court pressure, was to scrap all polluting two-stroke autos and allow only four-stroke single-mode LPG ones to ply on city streets. Now, the administration is plotting the conversion of two-stroke …
The high court on Monday directed the government to allow conversion of a two-stroke autorickshaw to battery mode. The private firm doing the switchover would send the three-wheeler to the Automotive Research Association of India to ascertain its feasibility, the court added. The conversion, by Tara International, has to be …
