The six court-appointed commissioners will inspect entry points into Delhi on Thursday. The transport department said it was drawing up a plan of action but it would be implemented only after the department gets a copy of the NGT order.
The court had given the transport department 20 hours, that is time till Wednesday morning, to make arrangements at border checkpoints to have weighbridges, centres to carry out pollution checks and facility for vehicles, especially heavy vehicles, to turn around if they were not permitted entry into Delhi. However, since the order was formally issued only on Wednesday evening, none of the six commissioners were able to go for inspection.
The six, Amit Verma, Aditya N Prasad, Neha Miriam Kurian, Atif Suhrawaroy, Sahil Sangar and Pallavi Talware will visit various entry check points on Thursday and submit a report to the NGT on April 10 on status of installation of weighbridges and provision of u-turns for overloaded or polluting vehicles.
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"It is a long standing demand to have weighbridges at border check points and in the hearing on November 26, the NGT had given orders for installation of weighbridges and PUC centres. However, due to lack of implementation, the tribunal gave the concerned agency one more day to have things in order," said sources.
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Traffic police officials said that though no specific instruction was given to them by the green tribunal to prosecute diesel vehicles, a drive was conducted during a check at the border posts. Cops found 96 vehicles violating the compliance order.
"We checked the registration certificates of the vehicles and the one found to be in violation of the order were impounded," said Muktesh Chander, special commissioner, traffic. A traffic officer said that in such cases the vehicles are treated as ones plying without a registration certificate. Traffic officers said that they have also expressed their limitations in terms of manpower and space to store impounded vehicles.
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The five-member Bench headed by NGT chairman Swatanter Kumar observed that the applicants had "vehemently contended that all the authorities and states in NCR, Delhi have utterly failed to comply with the directions issued by the Tribunal in its orders...The slackness and casual attitude of the authorities of the state government is exhibited from the very fact that air pollution is increasing and has reached an alarming level which would make it difficult for the people of Delhi even to breathe freely much less fresh air".
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Pulling up the various state governments for their tardy response to the NGT's directions, the Bench said: "We had directed NCT, Delhi and other governments to submit their views on matters like controlling of vehicular pollution, total number of vehicles, age of vehicles. The authorities were also required to submit their views on congestion, control and prevention of construction pollution, checking of vehicles for pollution at the state entry point, overloading of trucks and construction of parking areas in all congested places of Delhi to avoid congestion and to ensure free flow of traffic. Unfortunately, we find no response in that regard." The state governments and public authorities have been directed to submit an action taken report before the tribunal on April 10 to show how much each has complied with the various orders.
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