AAP government moves green panel on odd-even order
The green panel said it will hear the plea on Tuesday.
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Monday moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking amendment in its November 11 order on the odd-even car-rationing scheme. The green panel said it will hear the plea on Tuesday.
The NGT had on November 11 given a conditional nod to the AAP government’s decision to implement the odd-even car rationing scheme for five days from November 13, ordering that no exemption should be allowed to “any person or officer and two-wheelers”.
It had said the odd-even scheme should be implemented “without any default” as and when PM (particulate matter) 10 level goes above 500 microgrammes per cubic metre and PM 2.5 level crosses the limit of 300 microgrammes per cubic metre during a span of 48 hours.
The government had on Saturday scrapped its plan to implement the odd-even vehicle rationing scheme it had slated to start from Monday, after the NGT said there will be no exemption for women, two-wheelers and government servants.
Earlier in the day, Delhi minister Gopal Rai said that his government would file a review petition before the NGT that two-wheelers and women be exempted from odd-even scheme. The national capital has been experiencing dense smog for about a week, forcing the authorities to enforce emergency measures such as banning construction activities and brick kilns in the National Capital Region.