Round two thousand new automobiles had been purchased by Chandigarh residents within the 9 days of Navratri.
As many as 1,861 automobiles had been registered from October 3 to October 11, in response to the main points shared by the Chandigarh Registering and Licensing Authority (RLA). A number of folks buy new automobiles on this interval, which is taken into account auspicious as per Hindu faith.
Information revealed that 964 petrol based mostly two-wheelers and 436 petrol-based automobiles had been registered. Additionally, 53 electrical automobiles, 59 hybrid automobiles, and 93 electrical two-wheelers, had been additionally purchased by folks.
RLA information confirmed 24 CNG automobiles and 153 new diesel automobiles had been additionally bought throughout this era.
From 2014 until date that’s 2024, Chandigarh has added roughly 4.69 lakh automobiles to its already crumbling infrastructure.
Whilst there have been discussions and debates on the necessity to strengthen the general public transport on the traces of nations overseas, the Union Territory’s (UT’s) residents favor private automobiles.
Since Covid, extra automobiles than two-wheelers
Previous to the Covid yr of 2020, extra two-wheelers than four-wheelers had been registered in Chandigarh. After Covid, nonetheless, the temper within the ‘Metropolis Lovely’ started to vary.
In 2014, 29,859 two-wheelers and 21,476 automobiles had been registered in Chandigarh, whereas 28,936 two-wheelers and 21,365 automobiles had been registered in 2015. In 2016 and 2017, 28,794 and 30,341 two-wheelers, and 21,073 and 21,765 new automobiles had been added, respectively.
All these years, the variety of electrical automobiles registered within the metropolis was zero, besides in 2017, when 13 electrical automobiles and one electrical two-wheeler had been purchased.
In 2018, 2019 and 2020, 29,698, 25,698 and 15,148 two-wheelers had been registered in Chandigarh respectively. In these three years, 20,120, 18,975 and 15,402 automobiles had been bought. Nevertheless, after 2020, four-wheeler registrations overtook two-wheeler registrations.
In 2021, as many as 20,437 automobiles had been registered, whereas 16,527 two-wheelers had been added. In 2022, there have been 21,829 new two-wheelers and 25,415 new four-wheelers. In 2023, automotive registrations beat the two-wheeler registrations once more as 26,515 automobiles and 20,278 two-wheelers had been added.
Consultants have stated authorities in Chandigarh, a metropolis with the very best car density within the nation, should take steps to make its public transport system sturdy to ease the already congested metropolis roads.
The ‘Metropolis Lovely’ desperately requires the necessity to make a sturdy good public transport else its roads which are already burgeoning below the excessive car density will likely be choked and cramped fully, specialists warned.
