Gurgaon: Police have started a special trip against more than 10 years of diesel vehicles and gasoline vehicles older than 15 years in Gurgaon and 13 other NCR districts in Haryana.
Such vehicles will be confiscated and the owner will be sentenced to RS 5,000, police said.
According to the 2015 National Green Tribunal (NGT) order, gasoline vehicles in Delhi-NCR have a 15-year life cycle, while the same thing for those who walk in Diesel is 10 years.
NGT orders were issued given the increasing pollution in the region.
Since then, around 640 vehicles older than the specified limits have been confiscated by traffic police in Gurgaon.
According to traffic police, they have confiscated 208 old vehicles so far this year.
Most of them have been confiscated in recent weeks because traffic rules are not enforced earlier due to pandemic and locking, police said.
“Now, we have started a special drive where the focus will be on an older vehicle.
Vehicles over 10-15 years old will be confiscated and the owner will be issued by Challans.
The vehicle confiscated cannot be used again and will be deleted,” DCP (then Cross) Ravinder Singh Tomar to Ti.
He added that all kinds of vehicles, including two-wheeled, four-wheeled and commercial vehicles, will face actions regardless of their registration.
“Even vehicles that are not registered in NCR Regency and come from other parts of the country will be confiscated if found plying on city streets,” said DCP Tomar further said older vehicles can be identified from the model and condition.
All vehicles confiscated in Gurgaon were taken to the courtyard near Rajiv Chowk.
The police said if the old vehicle was registered in Delhi-NCR, the owner only had two choices: locking or registering back to another country.
According to the rules, the vehicle is automatically not registered after the life cycle ends.
Traffic police have written to regional transportation offices for older vehicle details.
Gurgaon police have replaced all their old vehicles.
Some residents said the drive would not help examine pollution, but boosted the sale of new vehicles.
“The life cycle of the vehicle should not be counted in years, but in conditions and number of kilometers,” Satish Yadav, a resident of Sector 50.
The government must work on the development of public transportation, other residents said.
“In a place like Gurgaon, someone cannot travel without a private vehicle, because there is no reliable public transportation,” said Archana Jalan, Sector 84 residents.