The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has allowed a seven-hour window to heavy vehicles, allowing plying between 11 pm and 6 am.
The Supreme Court-appointed EPCA permitted entry of heavy vehicles into Delhi on Tuesday, four days after it was had banned the same due to dangerously high pollution levels. The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has allowed a seven-hour window to heavy vehicles, allowing plying between 11 pm and 6 am.
The move came even as Delhi’s air quality deteriorated to ‘severe’ category on Tuesday. EPCA chairperson Bhure Lal confirmed that the restriction imposed by it on heavy vehicles has been lifted. On Monday, the EPCA allowed entry of only those vehicles into the city which were stranded for the last four days at Delhi borders, fearing the situation to turn inflammable with the owners of over a 1,000 trucks getting “restive”.The EPCA had asserted on Monday that these stranded trucks would be exempt from paying toll or Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) from 11 pm on November 12 to 7 am on November 13. The pollution control body also said that by relaxing the payment of toll-ECC, trucks will move without any stop, hence reducing congestion and curtailing pollution.
Over 2,200 vehicles were sent back from Delhi’s borders during the four-day restriction -- from November 8 to November 12 — on the entry of heavy vehicles in the national capital in the wake of high pollution levels in the city, a senior Traffic Police official said.
As many as 3,931 vehicles carrying essential goods were allowed inside the national capital from 11 PM on November 11 till 5 AM on November 12, he said. The restriction on the entry of heavy vehicles was imposed from November 8 to November 11.
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Over 2,200 vehicles were sent back from Delhi’s borders during the four-day restriction -- from November 8 to November 12 — on the entry of heavy vehicles in the wake of high pollution
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