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 …
KOLKATA, 7 JUNE: The state government is likely to move the Calcutta High Court for the extension of the deadline for phasing out of two-stroke autorickshaws from 31 July to December 2009. According to a senior official of the state transport department the government may move the Calcutta High Court …
Officers of Kolkata police and a section of the city-based environmentalists feel that the conversion of two-stroke auto rickshaws into four-strokes LPG mode might get delayed as the Opposition parties ~ who had earlier opposed phasing out of two-stroke auto rickshaws from Kolkata ~ would now oppose the drive with …
KOLKATA, Mach 31: In a new twist to recent controversies surrounding the phasing out of two-stroke autorickshaws in order to bring down the pollution levels, the public vehicles department (PVD) has found out that 17,000 autorickshaws were being plied in the city without valid documents. This has brought to light …
KOLKATA, March. 19: Calcutta High Court's extension of deadline for phasing out petrol and diesel run auto rickshaws into LPG fuelled four stroke ones by a few months, does not seem to have pleased the auto-rickshaw operators. Leaders of auto-rickshaw operators union today said, even after the extension of the …
- GUZZLE KATATEL, SPEW POISON Calcutta might not see the last of its polluting two-stroke autos for at least another decade if the pace of Operation Phaseout remains what it is. Of the 40,000 registered two-stroke autos that need to be replaced with LPG-compliant green autos, only 450 have been …
Two-stroke autos ply in Kolkata despite court ban A COURT directive to stop polluting two stroke autorickshaws from plying on Kolkata roads has been rendered ineffective by the state government. The Calcutta High Court order dated July 18, 2008, to ban two-stroke autos by December 2008 was based on a …
OUR BUREAU State home secretary Ardhendu Sen met advocate-general Balai Ray on Monday to discuss the status report on the two-stroke autorickshaw ban that the government will place in the high court on January 27. Lawyers on the state panel in the high court later said the advocate-general had asked …
OUR BUREAU The government is set to move court on Friday seeking a combined deadline to phase out the two-stroke autos that should have gone by December 31 and replace all old commercial vehicles that are supposed to go by March 31.
: Even as commuters had a harrowing time today as most of the auto-rickshaws stayed off roads in the city and its outskirts protesting against the state government's decison to phase out petrol or diesel run two-stroke autos by 31 December, two rival auto unions were involved in a scuffle …
Vehicular exhaust pipe emission is one of the major contributors of the air pollution. Present study was an effort of study the impact of exhaust pipe constitutents from two-stroke engine vehicle on the haematological parameters and histopathological pictures of lung and kidney tissues of the male rats during summer season.
The Supreme Court in its order of 4.10.1999 called for suggestions regarding emissions control from two-wheelers and three-wheelers. The EPCA, in its earlier report of August, 1999, had made a brief recommendation that on scooters, which are high emitters of particulate, suggesting that the norms be tightened further, and the …
