Enforcement teams will check the vehicles by uploading their registration numbers in the Vahan database and checking their type and other specifics.
The Delhi Department of Transport has deployed up to 120 enforcement teams to implement BS3 and BS4 diesel four-wheeler restrictions in the city, with the help of the city police. This move is aimed at limiting the city’s increasingly serious air pollution, so the Center’s air quality directorate has directed the authorities in the National Capital Region to take action. restrictive measures such as bans on construction and demolition activities as well as crackdowns on non-compliant vehicles. with emission norms.
Enforcement teams will check the vehicles by uploading their registration numbers in the Vahan database and checking their type and other specifics. “All 120 enforcement teams are busy in implementing various measures related to pollution,” a transport ministry official said.
During a high-level meeting on Sunday, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai will discuss the measures taken in phase III of GRAP. The national capital’s 24-hour average air quality index stood at 397 as of 4 p.m., the worst level since January. It is 354 on Thursday, 271 on Wednesday, 302 on Tuesday and 312 on Monday during Diwali.
The national capital government has also planned a month-long campaign – ‘Red lights on, off Gaadi’ – with the aim of reducing vehicle pollution in the city. However, due to the delay in approval from LG, the launch of the campaign has been postponed.
In this campaign, volunteers encourage motorists to turn off their engines when waiting for a green light. Rai had previously announced that 2,500 civil defense volunteers would be deployed this year to oversee the implementation of the campaign at 100 key intersections. Another 10 volunteers will be deployed at each traffic signal in two shifts.
He also announced that the focus will be on 10 major intersections in the city, where 20 volunteers will each be stationed.
First published date: October 30, 2022, 10:17 AM IST
