The Delhi government told the Supreme Court on Thursday that of 1.10 crore vehicles registered in the Capital, 40 lakh “overage” vehicles — more than 15 years in case of petrol and 10 years for diesel — have been deregistered by the Transport Department.
This information was shared as the top court expressed displeasure that orders passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the Supreme Court in 2015, prohibiting the plying of such old vehicles in Delhi-NCR, had not yet been complied with.
A Bench headed by Justice Madan B. Lokur was also informed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) that it has created social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook where citizens could lodge their complaints about pollution in Delhi-NCR.
