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Faridabad suspends licences of 16 pollution check centres
The Story in Brief
Faridabad’s transport department has suspended the licences of 16 pollution check centres after finding irregularities in their machines. The action follows inspections of all 206 such centres in the city as part of a drive to curb rising air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region.
RTA secretary Munish Sehgal said teams have been conducting continuous checks in view of the rising Air Quality Index. Over the past month, traffic police and the RTA have impounded nearly 500 vehicles from the BS-1, BS-2 and BS-3 categories. Around 18,000 vehicles up to BS-4 standard have been identified for a transition scheme, and 5,000 owners have already registered on the portal.
Vehicles without a valid pollution under control (PUC) certificate will be denied fuel at petrol pumps and will also be fined. The department has issued a tender at directorate level to install cameras at petrol pumps in the next six to eight weeks to automatically identify vehicle categories and enforce compliance.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The suspension of 16 pollution check centre licences out of 206 inspected shows enforcement is tightening but still affects only a small fraction of the total. The 500 older vehicles impounded in a month are a fraction of the 18,000 BS-4 and below commercial vehicles identified, and only 5,000 of those owners have registered on the transition portal so far. The next concrete step is the planned installation of cameras at petrol pumps in the next six to eight weeks, which will automate vehicle classification and PUC verification, potentially widening enforcement far beyond what manual checks achieve today.
Source: tv9hindi.com
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