Kolkata: 5,655 commercial vehicles will be removed by 2021-22 for 15 years old, revealing the Department of Transportation Committee reports formed based on the Order of National Green Tribunal (NGT).
In 2008, Kalsuta High Court banned commercial vehicles over 15 more than 15 in the Kolkata Metropolitan (KMA) region to the premise that older commercial vehicles with the old exhaust mechanism polluted more than newer vehicles with superior emission control devices.
Times ViewPami requires two things and we must try to simultaneously: older vehicles, more pollutants must be removed as soon as possible and they must be replaced with newer vehicles and not very polluting.
Government agencies must try and overcome logistical problems, such as facilitating soft loans and getting more clean fuel stations on the road.
In a case submitted by the Green Crusader Subhas Datta in connection with the pollution of vehicles in Kolkata and Howrah’s twin city, the Twin Bench of Justice B Amit Sthalekar (Judicial Member) and Saibal Gupta (expert members) requested reports from the actual gap of older vehicles and pollute in these cities.
Vehicles over 15 years old are found three times more polluting than vehicles that are younger than that.
The report said that RTOS KMA, including Kolkata and Howrah, has denied the update of fitness and registration certificates to 3,09,417 commercial vehicles until December 31, 2019.
Datta said, “Many of these vehicles still plying illegally and polluted the city air because this vehicle was locked , but it is not physically removed.
“The report also acknowledges that it is in accordance with the provisions of the current law, there is no special life of motorized vehicles after it can be registered.
The report recommends that if it was found to be plying after three months notified, commercial vehicles older than 15 years are responsible for subject to severe penalty because the government can be determined as pollution costs, and the vehicle will be confiscated and deleted.
The exit phase, the transportation operator said, will have an impact on public transportation.
About 943 taxi meters and 502 luxury taxis, which include taxi applications, will be deleted.
5,655 vehicles covering 625 buses (37-41 seats) and minibus (28-31 seats) and 126 Omni buses (more than 41 seats).
According to transportation operators, the elimination of so many buses will create a gap that will be difficult to bridge because of the low registration of new buses.
Older vehicles, experts, produce more pollution due to incomplete fuel combustion.
They spend a number of higher particles, including a very high number of particles (PM2.5).
This is why superior combustion engines have been introduced in the form of BS-II, BS-III, BS-IV and BS-VI vehicles.
BS-VI, for example, is 50% less pollution than BS-IV vehicles.
In terms of BS-VI vehicles, the level of NOx emissions can fall by around 25% in the case of gasoline engines and 70% in terms of diesel engines.