A 2014 World Health Organization survey of more than 1,600 cities ranked Delhi as the most polluted, partly because of the 8.5 million vehicles on its roads. Under the scheme, Odd number registration cars will ply on odd dates and even number on even dates.
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Overwhelmed by the response of the people on the first day of the initiative, Mr Kejriwal explained that there would be a reassessment after the pilot plan ends on January 15 and that it would never be “permanently” implemented. People have achieved the impossible. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has staked a lot of political capital on the scheme, thanked Delhiites and called it the start of a “movement”.
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Under the Delhi government’s new rule, if vehicles with license numbers ending with odd numbers are out one day, it will be the turn of vehicles with license numbers ending with even numbers the following day, and so on.
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“I am pooling my auto and going to office with two ministers, my personal secretary and my joint secretary”, he said.
Earlier in the day Bassi had once again appealed to people to cooperate with his force throughout the 15 days that the initiative will be in force.
Though two-wheelers, ambulances, police vans and emergency cars are exempted from the rule, the Delhi government is running 3,000 extra buses and the Delhi metro is operating its full capacity. As Delhi takes to the formula, government said violators of the rule will not be allowed access to authorised parking spaces in the city. Except for a handful of major intersections, where police and civil defense volunteers set up checkpoints to watch for wrong-numbered license plates, there was little official presence on the roads at all. “I spoke with my officers and they told me that people are appreciating the scheme and cooperating with them”.
This is the most significant policy decision to be formulated by any government in the country since the large-scale conversion of State government-run public transport to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in 2002 on the order of the Supreme Court. One of the reasons for this might be the fact that most of the offices were closed on January 1. There are very less even-numbered cars on the roads.
However, a display board installed in front of Delhi Secretariat put the real-time figures of suspended particulate matter PM 2.5 and PM 10 at 360 and 480 micrograms per cubic metre, respectively, at 9.30am, several times above the safe limits.
Environment minister Imran Hussain came to his office in an e-rickshaw while tourism minister Kapil Mishra rode his motorcycle.
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“Some individuals are saying that the actual check of this scheme will probably be on Monday when individuals in giant numbers will go to work”.
