Sustaining that site visitors law enforcement officials are “hesitant” in confiscating end-of-life automobiles (ELV) — petrol and diesel automobiles which have accomplished 10 and 15 years in service, respectively — the Delhi Transport Commissioner Tuesday wrote to the police chief searching for instructions to all officers involved to strictly implement pointers.
With the air high quality deteriorating in Delhi, the Transport Division had launched a joint drive with different enforcement businesses in opposition to previous petrol and diesel automobiles.
In a letter to Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora, Principal Commissioner-cum-Secretary of the Transport Division, Prashant Goyal, wrote: “… the transport division has issued pointers for dealing with ELVs in public locations… Delhi Visitors Police has been declared as one of many enforcement businesses… the businesses need to conduct steady enforcement drives for phasing out ELVs from the general public locations…”
“… apparently at discipline degree, there’s some lack of readability and Delhi Visitors Cops are hesitant in catching ELVs… Given the quickly deteriorating air high quality scenario in Delhi, Union authorities, CAQM and Authorities of NCT of Delhi would love expeditious focusing on of such automobiles…,” the letter added. He additionally requested Arora to direct all officers to take strict motion in opposition to such automobiles.
Goyal additionally wrote: “It will additionally assist… if some police personnel are deployed to work together with the enforcement workforce of the transport division.”
In response, Further CP (Visitors) Dinesh Okay Gupta mentioned: “Motion in opposition to end-of-life automobiles has been immediate. All pointers have been adopted. All automobiles which are older than 10 to fifteen years are confiscated as quickly as they’re discovered flouting norms. They’re instantly handed over to scrap sellers.”
The Transport Division had earlier urged the Visitors Police to deploy 4 groups per MCD zone, in coordination with its enforcement groups, to grab and impound ELVs in addition to e-rickshaws which are unregistered and do not need health certificates and hand them over to the designated Registered Car Scrapping Facility (RVSF) for motion.
“There’s a manpower scarcity within the Transport Division’s enforcement wing. So, we requested police to deploy personnel for the drive,” mentioned an official.
As per knowledge shared by the division, 1,868 automobiles — 50% are e-rickshaws — have been impounded between October 11 and 22 night. Whereas 554 automobiles have been impounded, 202 of the impounded automobiles are bikes, 895 are e-rickshaws and 167 are unregistered e-rickshaws.
The division has authorised 12 RVSFs for every MCD zone to work with enforcement businesses. As per guidelines, whereas the division can problem permits for the discharge of ELVs impounded for the primary time, any ELV impounded for the second time wouldn’t be launched. The discharge of impounded automobiles is instantly monitored by the division.
