Supreme Court may hear Delhi Govt’s plea against blanket ban on overage vehicles today
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta-led Delhi executive has moved the Supreme Court docket stressful the blanket ban on diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years.
A 3-judge bench headed by Chief Justice BR Gavai is seemingly to listen to the plea at the original time. The plea seeks to recall the tip court’s October 29, 2018, advise upholding the National Inexperienced Tribunal’s preliminary directive.
The plea submitted that a complete policy is required to kind out air pollution in Delhi-NCR, which offers automobile properly being in step with staunch emission ranges of particular person vehicles as per scientific systems in recount of imposing a blanket ban essentially based entirely on age.
The plea seeks a complete see by the Centre and CAQM to assess the staunch environmental advantages of age-essentially based restrictions versus emission-essentially based requirements.
Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa mentioned closing week that air pollution ranges of vehicles needs to make certain in step with their utilization in recount of their age, sooner than the Supreme Court docket hearing on the End-of-Existence (EoL) automobile policy.
“There are many vehicles that trust archaic, nonetheless due to they have not been feeble noteworthy, their air pollution ranges are decrease. There are so noteworthy of fresh vehicles whose age is less nonetheless were feeble a lot; so we assume that the parameter to resolve air pollution ranges needs to be the inform of the auto in its effect apart of its age,” Sirsa suggested data agency ANI.
On July 24, a bench led by Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran agreed to ogle whether BS-VI compliant vehicles would possibly nonetheless trust an discontinue-of-lifestyles restrict of 15 years for petrol vehicles and 10 years for diesel vehicles in the Delhi-NCR effect apart.
What was as soon as the October 2018 Narrate?
The apex court had earlier directed the transport departments of states in the National Capital Plan (NCR) that every diesel vehicles bigger than 10 years extinct and petrol vehicles bigger than 15 years extinct shall no longer ply in the case of advise of the NGT advise.
“All vehicles, diesel or petrol, that are bigger than 15 years extinct shall no longer be licensed to ply on the roads and wherever such vehicles of this age are seen, the alive to authorities shall rob appropriate steps according to regulation, along with seizure of the vehicles according to the provisions of the Motor Automobile Act.
“The vehicles that are bigger than 15 years extinct, would possibly no longer be licensed to be parked in any public effect apart, they customarily shall be towed away and challenged by the police according to the regulation. This direction would be appropriate to all vehicles with out exception i.e. two wheelers, three wheelers, four wheelers, gentle vehicles and heavy vehicles no topic whether commercial or otherwise,” the NGT mentioned in its November 26, 2014, advise.
Lately, the Delhi executive implemented ‘No fuel for 15-year-extinct petrol and 10-year-extinct diesel vehicles’ from July 1, 2025, in compliance with the mandate from the Charge for Air Quality Administration (CAQM).
However, within two days of its implementation, town executive, going thru public ire, effect it on retain, citing ‘operational and infrastructural challenges’ because the explanations.
(With agency inputs)
