The Apex court took this decision to curb air pollution
which has reached an alarming level in the national capital.
The court also ordered that all trucks which are not bound
for Delhi will also be not allowed to enter the capital city through the
National Highways 1 and 8. Only those carrying goods in Delhih will have to pay
environment compensation charge of Rs2600 for the lager trucks and Rs1400 for
the smaller ones or called light commercial vehicles.
The private cab companies are also given instructions to
convert their cabs into CNG vehicles meanwhile the small vehicles have been
exempted by the court which is great relief for the ordinary commuters.
This fresh ruling of the Court has just come before two
weeks of the experiment which AAP Government wants to do in January regarding
the driving of odd and even vehicles from 1st January.
The DelhI Government and all other civic bodies were also
instructed by the Court to stop burning of waste. Whereas the Central Pollution
Board and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee was asked to enforce
construction norms strictly stop builders from polluting the NCR.
After this decision of the Supreme Court of India all other
decision passed by any other forums earlier not valid which also includes the
orders of National Green tribunal (NGT) as this order overrides all of them.
For the automobile dealers it is a very big problem for them
as they are facing pile up of stocks as sales plummeted following the recent
NGT decision which banned the registration of diesel cars as part measures to
clean up the abysmal air quality in the City.
I think the court’s decision is appropriate as the air
pollution in the city has already reached the alarming levels and its air is
not good enough for breathing even in the morning when the most of the polluted
air gets settled.
According to a study there are about 23% vehicles of the
total which diesel run and is major contributor for the air pollution because
they produce much more carcinogenic nitrogen oxide as compared to the petrol
run cars.
In the capital city more than 1400 new cars are added every
day to the already volume of 8.million vehicles running on Delhi’s roads.
