No Diesel Vehicles Above 2000cc to be Registered for 3 Months: SC

The apex courtroom additionally ordered that each one business automobiles, together with trucks, which aren’t Delhi-sure, won’t be allowed to enter the national capital by means of entry factors NH-8 and NH-1. Other laws include all taxis plying in the National Capital Region NCR like OLA, Uber, Sky Cabs etc will have to change to CNG from their existing engines.

In another landmark ruling, the court also raised by 100% the Green cess being levied on commercial vehicles entering Delhi.

Meanwhile the government hikes excise duty on petrol by 30 paise a litre, diesel by Rs 1.17 per litre.

Following the the Supreme Court order, the governments of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan will have to coordinate and work together to ensure its success. Almost 40,000 trucks enter Delhi daily and the two major entry points account for 70% of the total.

“Today, the Supreme Court has given some orders which we will study”. Recently, the government of Delhi has proposed the odd-even auto numbers to be allowed on the alternate days which is still known only by the Government of Delhi.

Delhi would be the among the world’s first cities to introduce such strict measures after Lebanon banned diesel vehicles in 2001. The bench also directed the Delhi government to take steps immediately to fix pavements and to build pavements wherever these are missing, and to take immediate steps for procurement of the requisite vacuum cleaning vehicles for use on Delhi roads expeditiously, and not later than April 1, 2016.

India’s top court on Tuesday said it was considering banning new diesel-guzzling SUVs and luxury cars from the streets of New Delhi in a bid to improve the capital’s notoriously toxic air. The other benefit that comes to Maruti and other players who deal only in smaller diesel vehicle is that the National Green Tribunal’s recent order banning sale of diesel cars till January 6 stands modified with the SC’s order.

The judges said it is now clear that they will consider the option of an environment compensation charge on all diesel vehicles when the court meets again in January.

Also, it ordered that NGT guidelines to be followed at construction sites be strictly enforced.

Abdul Majeed, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, called the Supreme Court’s interim order “a positive for the environment” as it is aimed at assessing the impact of large diesel vehicles on pollution levels in the NCR.