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 Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2014 was introduced in Lok Sabha on December 15, 2014 by the Minister of Road Transport and Highways. The Bill seeks to amend the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
THAT Americans drive brash gas-guzzling cars whereas Europeans putter around in fuel-sipping runabouts is as enduring a stereotype as any. Strangely, this divide holds true even for similar models sold on either side of the Atlantic. European cars will apparently go much farther on a tank of fuel and, as …
ransportation has become an important part of our day to day life. Due to changing lifestyle, frequent travels whether related to work or leisure has become a common phenomenon. Such lifestyle also demands comfortable transport medium and reasonable availability of fuels. As need of vehicle for transportation is rising, it …
Dismayed at high levels of pollution, NGT ordered vehicles older than 15 yrs unfit for roads. More than 29 lakh vehicles will go off the capital’s roads following a National Green Tribunal order putting a ban on plying of vehicles older than 15 years, the Delhi government has said. Dismayed …
The last update of global fuel economy trends, published in 2013, concluded that, while global average fuel economy was improving, more needs to be done to meet the ambitious, yet realistic, GFEI target to cut by half the specific fuel consumption of new passenger light-duty vehicles (in Lge/100km) by 2030. …
The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) decision to ban vehicles older than 15 years from plying in the Capital, which aims at reining in emission levels in the city, is expected to affect over two million vehicles, according to official estimates. Various government departments, including transport and the police, began gathering …
Himachal Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday approved the revised transport policy, 2014, envisaging special thrust on accelerating the growth of transport sector and implementation of mandatory provisions of various central and state laws as also to re-define the role of transport department. It also decided to implement a mega tele-medicine pilot …
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has come up with Draft Road Transport and Safety Bill, 2014. Last month, the opportunity to suggest ideas came to an end, after it was introduced for comments on September 13. Once it is approved and becomes an Act, the current Motor …
Plans to implement order on mandatory certificates from Dec 1 Apprehensive about the feasibility of the mandatory pollution under control (PUC) plan, the Delhi government has sought report from the state transport department and traffic police to assess the conditions of its certificate issuing centres, even as it has already …
The annual European Vehicle Market Statistics Pocketbook offers statistical portrait of passenger car and light commercial vehicle fleets in the European Union from 2001—and, beginning with the 2014 edition, of the heavy-duty fleet as well. The emphasis is on vehicle technologies, fuel consumption, and emissions of greenhouse gases and other …
Vehicles cannot pass the town quickly as the road is narrow and there is no alternative way. People in Gaibandha suffer from continuous traffic jam as the authority shows negligence to construct a bypass beside the town. Roads and Highway Department engineer Mahbub Alam Khan said: “Vehicles cannot pass the …
Green champion’s push to funnel car emissions into the emissions trading system seen as attempt to bend rules. A Danish bid to expand carbon offsetting to the transport sector has triggered uproar among NGOs and academics, with one new analysis saying it would devastate efforts to reign in fuel emissions. …
As road conditions worsen, users experience an increase in fuel consumption and vehicle wear and tear. This increases the costs incurred by the drivers, and also increases the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that vehicles emit. Pavement condition can be improved through rehabilitation activities (resurfacing) to reduce the effects on …
It Registers 1,200 Cars Daily But Added Only 2,500 Parking Slots In 10 Years It’s a city dependent on private transport—about 1,200 cars are registered here every day—but civic infrastructure has not kept pace with the number of vehicles. Of the 41 multilevel parking projects conceived by the erstwhile Municipal …
GURGAON: The Millennium City may soon get dedicated cycle tracks and lanes for pedestrians, thanks to the Rahagiri Day movement it pioneered for the cause of promoting non-motorized transport in Gurgaon. A senior MCG official said the civic body recently hired a consultant which has prepared a project report on …
A growing body of evidence shows that economic growth is not in conflict with efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Experience at the state and national levels demonstrates that well-designed policies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing overall net public benefits, for example, through improved public health, as …
India’s to-be-built “Smart Cities” will lay considerable emphasis on a world-class public transport that discourages people from taking their personal vehicles out, while earmarking separate lanes for pedestrians and cyclists on its roads. The new 100 Smart Cities, the ambitious project of the Narendra Modi government, would also emphasise on …
INDORE: Cloud of dust and smoke spewed by fuel-guzzling vehicles has been choking lungs of Indoreans. Never ending construction work, vehicles running on roads emanating toxic smoke and gases leave poor commuters and others gasping for badly needed fresh air. There's hardly a patch in the city which may fit …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The effort of the government to help the deaf by providing financial assistance for cochlear implant should be taken up as the objective of National Initiative for Safe Sound, a noise pollution awareness campaign launched jointly by Indian Medical Association and Association of Otolaryngologists of India, said Chief Minister …
