-Business Standard The All India Motor Transport Congress has said the supply of essential goods will get impacted with immediate effect New Delhi: Government’s suspension of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination notes has hit the truckers hard as they are unable to transport essential food items, including milk and vegetables, due to scarcity of smaller denomination currency and unacceptance of old tender notes by state authorities, toll plazas and labourers. More than...
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2 lakh heavy Diesel Vehicles to go off Delhi roads today -Rumu Banerjee & Somreet Bhattacharya
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Nearly 2 lakh heavy Diesel Vehicles more than 15 years old will not be allowed to ply in the city from Sunday. They cannot be parked here either. The transport department has drawn up a list of 1.91 lakh such vehicles that it has deregistered on the orders of the National Green Tribunal. Senior government officials said the list had been sent to the traffic police...
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-Daily Pioneer Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Saturday turned into a gas chamber with the pollution levels reaching an all-time high, leading to burning of eyes, breathing problems and choked throats forcing people to stay indoors to avoid the hazardous toxic air. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who said that the national Capital had become like a “gas chamber” due to the pollution, met Union Environment Minister Anil...
More »Diesel vehicle ban: UP govt plans to move SC against green tribunal order -Sarah Hafeez
-The Indian Express The UP government will challenge the NGT order on the grounds that the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act does not have a provision for deregistration of vehicles. New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to move the Supreme Court against the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order directing transport departments in the National Capital Region (NCR) to deregister and impound Diesel Vehicles older than 10 years. The UP government will challenge...
More »NGT order can put 70% of NCR's trucks off-roads -Rumu Banerjee
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal's order to deregister Diesel Vehicles older than 10 years in Delhi and NCR could take away 70 per cent of the goods carriage fleet of the capital and nearly 90 per cent of its private chartered buses. A day after the ruling, transport department officials were still coming to grips with the enormous impact the order was likely to have. "There are 1.28...
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