Scanner on end-of-life vehicles entering city

Stricter regulations in works

- Jasjeev Gandhiok

NEW DELHI: In a bid to regulate entry of end-of-life vehicles in the Capital, the Delhi government plans to install cameras at all border points and issue warnings via text messages to owners of such vehicles registered outside the national capital, environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said on Wednesday.

The cameras, Sirsa told HT, will be connected to VAHAN database under the Centre's ministry of road transport and highways. The cameras will identify overage vehicles, while LED boards will display and flash numbers of such vehicles, the minister added. Additionally, an SMS will be sent in advance, alerting these vehicles that their entry is illegal in the capital, he said.

"The goal is to eventually issue automatic online challans to such cars," Sirsa said.