Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the proposed odd-and-even number vehicle scheme on alternate days will be tried out for a limited period of time and will be stopped if there are problems galore.
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Similarly, for Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), which has a fleet of 4,700 buses, it will be a hard task to cater to the private vehicle user shifting to the public transport.
We wanted to build new rubber road and fix public transport.
New Delhi has earned the dubious distinction of being the world’s dirtiest city, surpassing Beijing, once the poster child for air pollution.
“Now that Kejriwal-led government has made a decision to implement “even-odd theory”, will I be able to use my newly-purchased vehicle for only 15 days in a month?” he wonders.
Dubai where vehicle density is at 540 per 1,000 people, it has identified and considered within its studies a number of travel demand management measures and transportation policies including even-odd plate numbers.
The Delhi government has said that it hopes to reduce vehicular pollution by half.
Asked how Chief Minister Kejriwal will come to office, Sharma said: “All the modalities have been worked out and there will be a review meeting on December 8”. Maps of air quality in the city were listed at hazardous levels on Friday.
NEW DELHI (AP) India’s capital announced new measures Friday to fight extreme air pollution that has earned it the title of world’s most polluted city.
Upadhyay said the Government has not presented any plan on how the ban will be executed and found the announcement as “lacking” vision. When a system of alternate days was launched in Bogota, Colombia, Bhatt said, many residents simply bought cheap second cars, choosing vehicles with license plates to complement their primary vehicles so that they could drive every day. He said Badarpur Thermal Plant near Delhi to be closed. “Due to heavy smog, such a situation has emerged that people are being advised against going for exercise”, he said.
The air quality worsened sevenfold between October and November, according to a study by the Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi, which showed that 3 percent of days in October had severe air quality but jumped to 73 percent of days in November.
“Anumita Roychowdhury of CSE, who has been working on ways and means to mitigate pollution in Delhi, said people should welcome the move as it was time to put “chest beating and complaining” to measures on the ground”.
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“If PM’s salary is less than ours, it should be increased”, he said responding to a question.
