The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, (MoRTH) on March 15, 2024, notified the Central Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Amendment Rules, 2024 to further amend the Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Rules, 2021. The following has been stated: In rule 5,- …
The Union transport ministry is pushing for a phaseout of polluting vehicles based on their fitness, instead of age. It has recently filed an application in National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the ban on more than 10-year-old vehicles. The ministry has quoted an IIT Delhi study that says vehicles which …
The debate over air pollution due to vehicular emissions is not new. Despite several announcements of stricter emission norms as well as the apex court's criticism, the government has been lax in their implementation. Last year, the state government had announced that pollution under control (PUC) certificates would be made …
The government on Monday moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking stay of its ban orders on 15-year-old petrol and 10-year-old diesel vehicles from plying on Delhi roads on the ground that it would affect public and essential services. Centre also sought six months time for suggesting measures to combat …
Delhi's environment department has collected about Rs 190 crore from the pollution cess of 25 paise per litre of diesel imposed in 2008, officials told TOI. The money was to be used to create an "air ambience" fund and promote clean air policies but a major chunk of it lies …
The Uttar Pradesh government, in a meeting in Lucknow on Thursday, discussed the implementation of the National Green Tribunal's order restricting diesel vehicles over 10 years old from plying in Noida and Ghaziabad. Transport minister Durga Prasad Yadav and transport commissioner K Ravinder Naik discussed the issue with the state's …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday extended its earlier deadline of banning all diesel operated tourists vehicles to Rohtang Pass, near Manali till May 5, as the state government showed its resolve to explore all viable alternatives to replace diesel operated vehicles and check environmental pollution at popular high-altitude tourists’ …
If a ban on polluting diesel vehicles is to be implemented, the transport department wants it to be based on fitness and not age. While this could be a sensible proposition, most experts who attended the department's meeting on Tuesday are worried that lax pollution-under-control certification standards and manipulation of …
The Delhi government transport department on Tuesday called a meeting with different experts to frame its reply to NGT before the tribunal’s two-week stay on its orders to ban diesel vehicles of over 10 years ends on May 1. Proposals discussed in the meeting included the correlation between the age …
International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), which analyses environmental performance and energy efficiency of all modes of transportation to better public health, has recommended a colour-coding system of vehicles to effectively implement the NGT ban on diesel vehicles more than 10 years old. "Enforcing such a ban continuously will be …
Let us assist the NGT and not discourage it, says CJI-led Bench The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition challenging an order passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in November banning vehicles over 15 years old from plying on Delhi roads. The Court was hearing a …
In Its Action Plan, CSE Suggests State Govt Need Not Wait For Centre To Act Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has recently prepared an action plan to counter high air pollution levels, and an implementation strategy for the new government with special emphasis on clean fuel and scaling up …
CHENNAI: The recent order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) banning diesel vehicles over 10 years old from Delhi roads was widely criticized as being a case of impractical overreach. A review of recent verdicts and cases at the southern bench of NGT shows that the bench in Chennai is …
Commending the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for its efforts to reduce air pollution and bring relief to the citizens, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the tribunal’s order to ban in Delhi vehicles that are more than 15 year old. A bench led by Chief Justice H …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that steps will be taken at the earliest to see that vehicles of VIPs, including that of the ministers, do not violate sound pollution norms. He said this while flagging off the all-Kerala cycle rally organised by Indian Medical Association, Kerala chapter, against sound …
Haryana seems to have misled the Centre over registration of the BS-IV compliant vehicles in 11 districts of the states falling in the NCR during the recent meeting of the environment ministers in New Delhi. This assertion was made by the Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training in a …
While transport and truckers’ associations that met Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday rued the ten year cap imposed on diesel vehicles by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Rai on Wednesday said the government will conduct a “simple reality test” on diesel vehicles to determine their fitness at the …
The Centre's three-month action plan to curb air pollution in Delhi has nothing new, experts said. They , however, welcomed it because for the first time, the action plan considered NCR, and not only Delhi, for interventions. On Monday , the Centre in coordination with Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and …
To check the deteriorating air quality in the capital, the Delhi government has set a target of planting about 14 lakh saplings across the city during 2015-16 and has also decided to conduct random inspections of two categories of diesel-run vehicles — those older than 10 years and 5 years …
Nearly 5,000 trucks passing through one checkpoint in just five hours, state transport buses without any papers, no coordination among government departments, lack of staff, and no machines to check pollution levels or the weight of vehicles. If the National Green Tribunal (NGT) is looking for a roadmap to clean …
