The Supreme Court has cracked the whip and has maintained its order of banning registration of diesel vehicles over 2000cc engine capacity in Delhi till March 31.
FLASH: SC bans registration of Diesel vehicles of over 2000cc capacity in Delhi till 31 March 2016
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It has also given a deadline of March 31 to cab aggregators like Ola and Uber to switch to cleaner fuels like CNG.
#BREAKING | #SC orders all taxis in Delhi to be converted to #CNG. @ArvindKejriwal pic.twitter.com/JrRyX4GrXe
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SC order: All vehicles passing from Delhi which are not Delhi bound will not be allowed to enter the city
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Commercial vehicles which are not Delhi bound, will not be allowed to enter Delhi through entry points NH-8 and NH-1
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The court had on October 12 ordered that light duty vehicles would have to pay Rs 700 and three-axle vehicles Rs 1,300 to enter Delhi in addition to the toll tax from November 1 as ‘Environment Compensation Charge’ (ECC) in a bid to check high pollution levels in the city.
A bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur said that it it may increase by 100 per cent the ECC on commercial vehicles using Delhi roads as a transit for their onward journey to destinations outside the national capital.
Now, the light duty vehicles may have to pay Rs 1400 and three-axle vehicles Rs 2,600 as ECC for entering Delhi.
The bench, also including Justices A K Sikri and R Banumathi, is likely to pronounce the interim directions tomorrow as it today ran out of time.
During the three-hour-long hearing, the bench asked the counsel representing Centre and the Delhi government to come out with comprehensive long and short term plans to tackle the menace of air pollution.
“Why don’t you people take credit of cleaning Delhi air? You could enumerate the steps to be taken and why you are asking the court to do it,” it said.
The court said that as an interim measure for three-four months, it may ban registration of SUVs, high-end cars having engine capacity of over 2000 cc, besides banning entry of commercial vehicles, registered prior to 2005, in Delhi.
It also said that only CNG cabs may be allowed to run on Delhi roads and the ban on burning of the municipal waste be enforced strictly, besides introduction of Euro-IV emission norms.
The bench was hearing various pleas including the 1984 PIL filed by environmentalist M C Mehta.
Just in: Commercial vehicles registered before 2005 cannot enter Delhi, says SC
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