ELVs at fuel pumps will get impounded in Capital: CAQM

Beginning July 1, any end-of-life vehicle (ELV) — diesel cars other than 10 years, and petrol older than 15 years — that arrives at Delhi's 382 petrol and diesel stations will be denied fuel, impounded on the spot and sent directly to a scrapping facility, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) said on Friday.

- Jasjeev Gandhiok

NEW DELHI:

The enforcement of the new rule will be carried out by joint teams of the Delhi transport department, Delhi Traffic Police, and municipal bodies, stationed at fuel stations equipped with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras, officials said.

In a joint press conference, CAQM, along with the Delhi transport department and traffic police, said a total of 7.78 million vehicles were screened via ANPR cameras between June 1 and 23. Of these, 136,000 were flagged as EoL, and nearly 800,000 were found without valid Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates.

"This means around 300,000 vehicles are scanned every day, out of which 6,000 are EoL and 35,000 lack a PUC," said CAQM member (technical) Virinder Sharma.