NGT to examine odd-even car scheme today
Team Udayavani, Nov 10, 2017, 1:12 PM IST
New Delhi: To keep a check on the air quality in Delhi as the smog has hit hazardous levels over the past few days, the National Green Tribunal will meet at 2 p.m. today to discuss the government’s odd-even scheme.
The State Government had announced for an odd-even scheme as part of a Graded Response Plan to tackle the alarming pollution situation in the national capital.
NGT Chairperson, Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the Delhi government to submit details of the air quality during the earlier implementation of the odd-even scheme.
NGT panel directed the counsel appearing for the Delhi government to be ready with all the requisite data and show before it the reason for implementing the latest odd-even scheme.
The pollution monitoring body had said that there was no data to indicate that car rationing scheme has any impact on the decrease in vehicular pollution and the fluctuations in PM10 and PM2.5 is due to vehicular pollution and change in wind patterns.
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