No new diesel vehicles would be registered in Delhi: NGT

The bench also directed the Centre and the Delhi government and its agencies not to buy new diesel vehicles for its services and come up with a plan to phase out old diesel vehicles.

The Supreme Court will also hear on December 15 on a petition seeking a complete ban on diesel cars in Delhi and other cities.

The move to ban new diesel auto registrations in Delhi comes soon after it was declared that pollution levels in the Capital are much above acceptable levels.

Arvind Kejriwal has said that vehicles with odd and even registration numbers will be allowed on alternate days from January 01, 2016.

The new policy will follow the date-wise procedure-that means, on odd dates, vehicles with odd numbers will ply on the roads, Rai told media.

Speaking about Delhi government’s odd-even formula, the bench said, “There can’t be a single solution of the problem”.

The Delhi government announced the odd-even formula in response to judicial warnings of rising air pollution, and after the Delhi High Court said that the national capital was becoming a “gas chamber”. These were some of the decisions announced by the CM after he chaired the second review meeting on pollution abatement measures, focusing on shoring up public transport to ease the pain of private vehicle users during the trial period that aims to reduce traffic volumes in Delhi.