New Delhi. Delhi’s Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa has written a letter to the Air Quality Management Commission (CMQM) asking to stop the order not to fuel the old vehicles in Delhi whose registration is over (end-off-life). Sirsa said that we are thinking a new idea about the end of life vehicle. Our aim is to stop pollution in Delhi but the common man should not be harmed. Therefore, we are considering bringing such a policy in which action should be taken not according to their registration period on the vehicles but according to the pollution level from them.
#Watch Delhi’s Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa has written a letter to the Air Quality Management Commission asking him to stop the instructions not to fuel the end-of-life (EOL) vehicles in Delhi.
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Sirsa wrote in the letter that the automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras have been installed are not strong systems. They still have many challenges. Many such challenges are coming out of technical disturbances, not working as sensors and spoilage of the speaker. It has not yet been integrated with NCR data. Also, it is not able to identify the vehicles that do not have HSRP plates. Sirsa also informed that such a law has not yet been implemented in Gurugram, Faridabad and Ghaziabad and other areas of NCR. Therefore, if no one gets fuel in Delhi, then he will go from Gurugram or Ghaziabad or Faridabad and take fuel. Sirsa said that this system will be effective only when it is implemented throughout the NCR and it still requires a lot of preparations and improvements in the system.
Let us tell you that in Delhi, fuel has been banned from diesel vehicles and 15 year old petrol vehicles in Delhi. For this, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras have been installed at petrol pumps and duty of policemen has been installed. On the other hand, a petition has been filed in the High Court by the Delhi Petrol Pump Association in this case. The petition said that petrol pumps do not have the legal power to follow the instructions for not fueling old vehicles, yet if a car is missed, action is being taken against the petrol pumps. The High Court has sought answers from the Delhi government and CAQM on this petition.
