Meanwhile, seeking to promote cycling in the national capital, Delhi government on Saturday said it will provide subsidy on purchase of cycles, from the money collected as challans during the odd-even scheme’s implementation period.
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Earlier this week, it had asked the Delhi Government why its experiment to ban private cars on alternate days should last more than a week, while terming the city’s public transport system as “insufficient” and observing that people were inconvenienced. The Delhi government, through its counsel Harish Salve, had apparently told the Court that the policy was working so well that it was considering extending the same for another week.
The odd-even scheme was introduced on January 1 for a two-week period in a bid to reduce smog in Delhi.
“The trial period will not be extended, and we will be examining the trends and data collected during the trial period after January 15”, Transport Minister Gopal Rai said.
In a big boost for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi High Court on Monday said it will not interfere with the AAP government’s notification on Odd-Even formula. Under this, cars having odd numbered license plates will run on odd days, and cars with even numbered license plates on even days. To counter this, the government was forced to roll out the odd-even scheme. “The odd-even scheme is an emergency measure to arrest peaking of the air pollution level”, Salve said, submitting the data of the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) on air pollution since 1 January.
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