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The All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) has announced a three-day onslaught successful the Delhi-NCR portion from May 21 to May 23 against the Delhi Government’s determination to hike the situation compensation cess connected commercialized vehicles.
The AIMTC, the apex assemblage of truckers, backstage buses, taxi, and maxi cab operators, held a gathering connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026) successful Delhi wherever issues related to the cess hike were raised.
"More than 68 transport associations and unions crossed Delhi NCR person travel unneurotic nether the banner of AIMTC and person decided to suspend their transport operations for 3 days from May 21 to May 23 successful Delhi-NCR against the unjust and unfair policies imposed by the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), courts and the Delhi authorities connected the transport sector," a connection said.
The national has enactment guardant a database of demands, including the withdrawal of the hike successful cess imposed connected each Delhi-bound goods vehicles, contiguous rollback of the projected prohibition connected introduction of non-Delhi registered BS-IV commercialized goods vehicles from November 1, 2026, and restricting the cess lone to those vehicles passing done Delhi.
"The CAQM and the Delhi Government person indiscriminately imposed the cess hike connected each Delhi-bound goods vehicles, alternatively than deterring transit vehicles utilizing Delhi arsenic a corridor successful enactment with the archetypal intent of the Supreme Court bid and to divert them to the Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressways," it added.
The transporters’ national further said that "these measures person caused superior socioeconomic consequences", severely impacting the transport assemblage and the livelihoods of operators.
In April, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced a prohibition connected the introduction of each interstate BS-IV commercialized goods vehicles from November 1 arsenic portion of the contamination mitigation plan, portion exempting CNG-powered, electric, and BS-VI compliant vehicles.
Opposing this move, the national sought contiguous withdrawal, saying, “This determination lacks technological ground and ineligible rationale arsenic it ignores the legally permitted operational lifespan of specified vehicles.” The national leaders person demanded an exemption from the cess for vehicles carrying indispensable commodities and bare vehicles entering Delhi for loading, which was earlier allowed successful the nationalist interest.
Last month, the Delhi Government had notified an summation successful cess connected commercialized vehicles entering the nationalist superior to curb vehicular pollution.
On Monday, the 'Chaalak Shakti Union', a national of commercialized conveyance drivers, had besides announced a three-day onslaught successful the Delhi-NCR portion owed to rising costs of CNG, petrol and diesel.
