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The Commission for Air Quality Management successful the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) has told the Supreme Court that the deficiency of pugnacious enforcement and an bid by the apical tribunal person allowed overage oregon ‘end of life’ vehicles (ELVs) to proceed plying successful Delhi and pollute the air. More than 63 lakh overage vehicles are plying successful the nationalist capital, the committee told the court.
The contamination watchdog, represented by Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, said its efforts to region specified vehicles from the roads person been hampered by inadequate coercive enactment and by the Supreme Court’s August 12 bid lifting restrictions connected ELVs. The CAQM had announced a prohibition connected the refuelling of overage vehicles successful Delhi from July 1 and directed authorities to impound overage vehicles successful compliance with a 2018 bid by the apex tribunal upholding the National Green Tribunal’s prohibition connected ELVs — diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years — successful Delhi-NCR. However, connected August 12, the tribunal stayed its 2018 verdict, spelling alleviation for commuters.
“Towards controlling vehicular contamination caused by old/end-of-life vehicles with overmuch inferior emanation standards, the committee has taken up with the States acrophobic and the GNCTD to strictly guarantee that petrol/diesel vehicles much than 15/10 years aged bash not ply successful the NCR... Progress, however, has been acold from satisfactory,” the CAQM said.
It noted that BS-III vehicles person already crossed 15 years, BS-II vehicles implicit 20 years, and BS-I vehicles astir 24 years. Despite their “higher polluting potential”, these vehicles proceed to tally connected the Capital’s roads.
