Bench was hearing a petition on the toxic air in Delhi. Pollution in the National Capital Region spikes every winter due to vehicular emission, paddy straw burning, and firecrackers.
On Sunday, Delhi’s air pollution levels entered ‘severe plus’ category – 2nd time in 3 days – prompting govt to enforce strict curbs, including banning entry of polluting trucks.
If cleaning the air by reducing overall fuel consumption is the goal, the govt ought to look at hybrid vehicles. It's not 'yesterday's technology' anymore.
The Delhi CM said govt will deploy 530 water sprinklers to prevent dust pollution and 385 teams will check vehicles’ pollution certificates and prevent plying of overage cars.
Most of expenditure from Rs 1,464 cr 'environmental compensation charge' fund has gone towards Delhi-Meerut RRTS, yet to be used for activities under Delhi's Pollution Control Committee.
Civil engineering professors, climate researchers and transport specialists pushed for behavioural changes and not just structural changes at an event that laid out Delhi's EV roadmap.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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