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 …
The event will again be held in Dwarka on November 22 and unlike today — when it was observed only for half-a-day as it coincided with Dussehra. Terming Delhi’s first car-free day a “success” and the “beginning of a revolution”, Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Wednesday announced that the capital …
The DTC managing director has also been asked to set up PUC centre at bus depots. To ensure implementation of a comprehensive plan for prevention, control and abatement of air pollution, the Delhi government has made it mandatory for every petrol pump to have a Pollution Under Control (PUC) centre. …
The Delhi government is no longer looking to purchase new buses for DTC. Instead, DTC has proposed a new cluster system that will allow the state bus authority to run buses without having to provide depot space. Delhi Transport Corporation head C R Garg said, “We've got in principle approval …
In an effort to reduce air pollution and promote usage of public transport in the national capital, Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Monday called upon citizens to use one car per family. “The Delhi government is serious about tackling the issue of air pollution in the capital. Our government will …
In a bid to tackle “immense shortage” of buses in the city, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) is likely to run buses under the cluster scheme on the lines of Delhi Integrated Multi-Model Transit System (DIMTS), which currently operates orange buses. Transport minister Gopal Rai said that DTC has prepared …
After Gurgaon, it's the turn of Delhi to go car-free. Transport minister Gopal Rai announced on Tuesday that starting October 22, Delhi will have a car-free day every month. "On the car-free day, there will be no cars on the stretch between Red Fort and India Gate," he said, while …
The National Green Tribunal today asked Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland, which supply buses to Delhi Transport Corporation, why these vehicles caused noise pollution on roads and directed them to submit details, including their designs. "All these buses which you have designed, why are they so noisy? DTC is planning …
Delhi has over 82 lakh registered motor vehicles. Of them, only 40,947 are buses. The skew probably explains the city's gridlocked mess, for traffic experts say that the only solution to road congestion in the capital lies in using the humble bus judiciously. And yet, it is the bus that …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday directed Delhi Police to develop a traffic policy to decongest the capital. It also instructed the cops to hold consultations with Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan governments before finalizing the policy within a week. The tribunal has asked police to solve the congestion caused …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik & Ors Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 24/08/2015 regarding growing air pollution in Delhi. The Managing Director, DTC has assured the Tribunal that he will initiate a data based study to rationalise …
The damage done to Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses on Wednesday at Janakpuri and Inderlok poves that how vulnerable the public transport in the capital is. Be it protests, agitation or any accident caused, people attack DTC buses or cluster buses. While almost every other day such cases are reported, …
The number of buses in Delhi has decreased over the years. In the 1980s, there were 57 buses for every one lakh Delhiites. By 2007-08 the figure had fallen to 34, and today it stands at just 25. In itself, the numerical slide should imply the streets are freer. But …
MANALI: The trial run of CNG bus to the Rohtang Pass from Manali was done successfully on Tuesday. Terming it as the country's maiden CNG bus run at a height of 13,051 feet, an official said there was no mechanical complication during the trial. The feasibility test of eco-friendly CNG …
The National Green Tribunal today questioned the Delhi government's proposal to deploy 10,000 new DTC buses in the wake of alarming proportions of air pollution in the capital and directed it to come out with a proper study to support its contention. "Strengthening public transport system is a healthy thing …
In order to cuts costs and increase profitability, and also to reduce pollution, Goa's state-run Kadamba transport corporation (KTC) is studying the possibility of converting its buses from diesel fuel to CNG (compressed natural gas) on the lines of the Delhi transport corporation (DTC). The KTCL is also studying the …
The National Green Tribunal has hit out at the Delhi government for failing to take steps to implement the measures the tribunal had set out to improve the capital's poor air quality. The tribunal also directed the Arvind Kejriwal government to submit a report on the proposal to ban diesel …
The National Green Tribunal today directed the Delhi government to submit a report on the proposal to ban all diesel vehicles, which are more than 10 years old, in the national capital. A bench headed NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also directed the city government to submit the exact number …
The Delhi govt was pulled up for its lackadaisical approach in implementing the green panel's directions to curb vehicular pollution The National Green Tribunal has pulled up the Delhi government for its lackadaisical approach in implementing the green panel's directions to curb vehicular pollution in the capital. "What steps have …
The National Green Tribunal has pulled up the Delhi Government for its lackadaisical approach in implementing the green panel’s directions to curb vehicular pollution in the Capital. “What steps have you taken in furtherance to our orders dated November 26, 2014. You have a whole team of officers at your …
The Delhi Transport Corporation has come under fire from National Green Tribunal after it failed to submit a compliance report on inspection of its buses by a team constituted by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC). “Give us one bus that has been inspected …
