Delhi Govt. Asks Car, Motorbike Dealers To Set Up Pollution Measuring Facilities

10 May, New Delhi

Delhi government has directed all car and motorbike dealers in the national capital to set up pollution measuring facilities on their premises.

In order to ensure that a stricter check may be kept on vehicular emissions, all automobile dealers, except those who sell battery- operated e-rickshaws, have been asked to come up with pollution checking centres at their workshops so that these may issue Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates.

Concerned by the rising air pollution levels in Delhi, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has recently put a ban on all petrol vehicles more than 15 years old and any diesel vehicles more than 10 years old.

The NGT on May 1 had extended till May 18 a stay on its order banning the plying of diesel vehicles over 10 years old in Delhi and NCR.