The observation was quick: two days after closing the service stations to old cars to try to reduce pollution, the authorities of the New Delhi capital admitted this Thursday, July 3 that the prohibition was … inapplicable. The Minister of Mégapol, Manjinder Singh Sirta, told the press that “crucial technological difficulties” prevented the prohibition.
The city of 30 million inhabitants regularly leads to the list of the list of the most disableable cities on the planet. Toxic traffic gases of the industry or cars, to which they are added in winter agricultural burns, cause thousands of premature deaths every year, due to cancers and heart or respiratory diseases.
The circulation of vehicles with diesel or gasoline driving, more than ten and fifteen years, respectively, has been prohibited in New Delhi since a judicial decision of 2018. But the prohibition has never been applied. Last March, the new municipality, the result of the Indian Nationalist Party (BJP) of the Hindu Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had announced its decision to deprive vehicles for fifteen years of fuel.
Poor detection of old vehicle cameras
This Tuesday, July 1, the measure entered into force, with a camera battery to read the mineralogical plates and speakers. Problem, admitted Mégapole’s minister, this team “works badly” and has caused “fights and disputes” with motorists.
“If the ban is not general and help for reliable teams, it will not work,” he insisted.
However, this measure had to extend to the cities of the capital in November. Now endemic of New Delhi, air pollution forces its authorities every year to close schools and limit economic activity for long weeks. To date, all measures deployed to stop it have had very few effects. A study published in the scientific journal The Lancet attributed to air pollution 1.67 million deaths in India in 2019.
Source: BFM TV
