Fuel ban on overage vehicles not feasible due to tech challenges: Delhi Government

Environment Minister Manjinder Sirsa slams the erstwhile AAP authorities for fixing ‘strong norms’ for overage vehicles

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The Delhi Government has written to the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), saying the substance prohibition connected overage vehicles is not feasible owed to technological challenges and analyzable systems.

Addressing a property league here, Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa connected Thursday said that determination was discontent among radical owed to this determination and the authorities stood with them.

The authorities has suggested that the prohibition should beryllium implemented crossed the National Capital Region (NCR), helium added and slammed the erstwhile AAP authorities for fixing “strong norms” for overage vehicles.

From July 1, the Delhi Government banned substance for end-of-life vehicles—10 years oregon older for diesel vehicles and 15 years oregon older for petrol vehicles—that are deregistered and not let to ply connected the roads arsenic per the court’s orders.

The Transport Department and the postulation constabulary are impounding end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) reaching astatine the petrol pumps for refuelling aft implementation of the ban.