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,- …
in an attempt to make compressed natural gas ( cng ) more affordable, the environment ministry has asked the finance ministry for a reduction in import duty on cng kits. Presently, there is an import duty of 70 per cent on the kits, forcing the car owners to shell out …
Industrial leaders must realise that this is not a strategy that will work any more. In a modern world where information transfer is extremely rapid, even a group of five people can take on the best in the biggest of companies. It is indeed true that controlling air pollution is …
European countries, under pressure from their diesel engine manufacturers, are paying a heavy price for allowing a larger number of diesel vehicles than the US. The diesel engine manufacturers' lobby is more powerful in Europe than in Japan or USA. This disturbing air pollution picture emerges clearly in France, where …
On May 4, 1999, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organised a press conference to brief mediapersons about the legal notice that has been served by TELCO against Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain of CSE for allegedly writing a defamatory article against TELCO. They were threatened with a Rs …
The Bangkok city administration revived its anti-exhaust campaign by launching 20 motorcycle patrol teams to nab smoke-belching vehicles that may have eluded stationary checkpoints. The teams, each with one city police officer and one traffic police officer, will prowl city streets twice a day. Their initial focus will be Sukhumvit …
THE axe may soon fall on the manufacturers of diesel vehicles in India. To curb the growing use of diesel in Delhi, the Environment Pollution (prevention) Control Authority (EPA) for the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT) may ban the registration of non-commercial vehicles in the NCT. This decision was …
THEY are small and they are Asia's lifeblood. What are we talking about? The omnipresent two-stroke engine. Throughout the continent, these provide low-cost transportation to millions but, ironically, they are killers. The cloud of thick blue smoke seen often in crowded city intersections throughout the region - Delhi, Bangkok, Taipei, …
ONE truck pollutes as much as 50 cars today, but all this is soon going to become history. Diesel engine manufacturers have agreed to pay US $83 million in fines and spend $1 billion to clean up the environment to avoid a US federal lawsuit over alleged cheating on engine …
CHASTISED by the recent Supreme Court ruling on the enforcement of a ban on 15-year old commercial vehicles by October 2, 1998, the Delhi government has come up with a draft proposal on a financial package for these vehicle owners to meet the cost of replacing their old vehicles. Rajendra …
The financial package at a glance: • The financial incentive will be in the form of interest subsidy on loan which will cover 75 per cent of the cost of the new vehicle. • Loan to be repaid in monthly instalment over four years at four per cent interest. • …
A programmer at Sandia National Laboratories in California has recently patented a machine that can mend holes in the road auto-matically. About the size of a single-decker bus, the Rapid Road Repair Vehicle, as it is called, scans the road using an array of sensors on its bumpers. When it …
WHEN it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, all our accusing fingers point towards the industries, blaming them profusely for reducing our once-green Earth to a sick, polluted planet. Having thus shifted our responsibilities, we carry on happily with our daily lives, without ever recognising our own share of the blame. …
The Supreme Court (SC) has banned plying of all 15-year-old motor commercial vehicles including buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in the National Capital Territory (NCR) from October 2 this year. The SC has expressed concern and distress at the apathy of the authorities concerned in implementing various directions issued by it …
There has been an alarming rise in noise pollution in most Indian cities. This can be attributed to the increase in number of vehicles, urbanisation and industrialisation. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), New Delhi, has set standards for ambient noise levels in residential, commercial and industrial areas and in …
global stocks of natural gas are enormous. Industry analysts estimate that the world holds enough recoverable natural gas to produce 500 billion barrels of synthetic crude. If this gas is converted into liquid form, it can provide fuel for nearly a decade after conventional supplies of crude oil begin to …
in the end, it turned out to be a facade. All the promises to give importance to the environment by the Bharitiya Janata Party came to nought, when the finance minister, Yashwant Sinha, presented the Union budget in Parliament on June 1. As far as the allocation of funds to …
The transportation modes in Indian cities are multifarious with varying capacity and widely varying sizes and speeds. The objectives of this study are: to evolve alternative urban transport development policies and strategies at national, sate and city levels covering infrastructure development, traffic management, control and enforcement, public transport development and …
NEATLY painted white and bearing the inscription safa tempo (meaning clean three-wheeler in Nepali language) on the sides in green letters - the electric passenger vehicles have come as a blessing in disguise to rescue the residents of Kathmandu. Although only seven in number at present, in the safa tempo, …
WITH smog levels rising to higher than normal levels, traffic authorities banned cars off the roads of the Czech capital, Prague. Only vital traffic like taxis, buses and motorists who live in central Prague are being allowed to ply. The emergency was declared after levels of nitrogen oxides reached nearly …
